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… poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand how ecosystems work and how … processes for the first time. By collecting data from 27 different poplar ( Populus trichocarpa ) trees, as … through human intervention. By leveraging metagenomics, scientists were able to analyze the DNA of microbes living …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to bring together a “Viral EcoGenomics” community to foster … for the event photos. Keynote Speakers Katrine Whiteson , UC Irvine Chase Morgan , UC San Diego Britt Koskella , UC …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger … was really happening,” recalled Sean Gallaher, a research scientist in Sabeeha Merchant’s lab and first author of the … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science … cultivar R570 has been  published in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of … to future environmental conditions. Additionally, insights from the genome could help scale sustainable sugarcane …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State …

The JGI Project Management Office carries out a number of activities to facilitate world-class science. PMO works with users, JGI scientists and technical staff to onboard users and guide …

… 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources … program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: Q(uestion): Who can apply for this … provide scholarships or financial support, but they provide scientists with accepted proposals free access to their …

Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in … was preparing to teach a second year A-Level Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) Biology class … that the project had already received enthusiastic support from the JGI Director, Nigel Mouncey. Jonathan credits his …

… researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the … United States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science … from the National Microbiome Data Collaborative. The published river microbiome datasets are also available …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first … and industry applications. Summary In their recently published Nature Communications article , the team used … and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A … tools, allows  Miscanthus to both inform and benefit from breeding programs of related candidate bioenergy … was  recently published in  Nature Communications by an international, multi-institutional team. The work was a …

… computational analysis for new technology development and JGI user science projects. We perform analysis for diverse … with main focus areas being genome variation, transcriptomics and epigenomics. Our work varies in scope from the development of highly customized analysis workflows …