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… a potential biofuel feedstock. The Science The fungus Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193 . …
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… bioinformatics pipelines and a laboratory information management (LIMS) system. He previously led the NGS Software team and metagenomic data platform … discovery platform. WO2021163637A1 , PCT application PCT/US2021/018050 (published 2021). Arkin, AP, et al. KBase: The …
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… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … synthesis of secondary metabolites, in line with the JGI’s strategic initiatives. These specialized compounds enable … information as well as of important descriptive metadata about each strain. “This has been a very fruitful …
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… hours. FY 2025 DOE Metrics There were 2,627 unique* JGI users in FY2025 , which includes Principal Investigators (PIs), Co-PIs, and collaborators. *Unique users are counted once, even though an individual may have … Q2 is due to planned upgrade of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and temporary shut down of the …
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… sites and which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. … cells across diverse plant tissues. Dr. Baumgart focuses on expanding functional genomics capabilities through … Lax, Carlos, Stephen J. Mondo, José F. Martínez, Anna Muszewska, Leo A. Baumgart, José A. Pérez-Ruiz, Pablo …
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… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … is estimated to be larger than any other single plant genus. Peatlands accumulate partially decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high …
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… the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and … a group lead at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and … systems. PloS one. 15: 11. 2020 Blaby & Cheng, Building a custom high-throughput platform at the Joint Genome Institute …
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… scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms … circular capture areas roughly 55-microns in diameter — about the width of a human hair. At such resolution, this … those working,” Cole said. Other authors on the paper are Danielle Goudeau, Thai Dao, Ronan O’Malley, Rex Malmstrom, …
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