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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program … role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to environmental changes. The program lays the groundwork for sustainable solutions to current problems facing humanity. A …

… a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . …

… UDE familiarized themselves with the research programs and user facilities at Berkeley Lab. Commenting on the visit, JGI Director Nigel Mouncey expressed enthusiasm about the potential of this collaboration stating, “We … individual workshops. Of common interest is the method development to study active sites or single cells in their …

… targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and … traditional shotgun metagenomics approach to learning more about environmental samples starts with researchers first … fixation protocols were also tested as part of the method development, and researchers found that ethanol treatment …

… Our research is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single … Exploring the fascinating world of giant viruses, which challenge our understanding of viral complexity …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … and dominant populations in oxygen-poor environments without oxygen deep below ground. These archaea fix carbon … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …

… exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that … driven his lab’s focus on guide RNA library generation and development and its applications. “I moved to UC Davis in …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven … Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as … journey.” Mentors: Deze Kong & Yasuo Yoshikuni Project: “ Development of a multiplex genomic integration system for …

… to energy independence in the U.S. Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop … the JGI has also helped researchers understand a fungus that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian Soybean … ASR can decimate up to 60-90% of its yield.  (Learn more about the soybean genome sequence and ASR in this JGIota, a …

… National Laboratory when applying to the FY2024 EMSL-JGI FICUS collaborative proposal call . Letters of Intent for the joint call are due March 7, 2024. The FICUS call allows researchers to combine the power of genomics … to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) Call Karolina Michalska , Advanced …