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… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … keeps its DNA more organized. “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are … conducted some microscopy studies over the next couple of years, and realized it was a sulfur-oxidizing prokaryote. …
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… of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the … complex carbohydrates, and then convert them into simple sugars. More importantly, when faced with a veritable buffet of … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … a JGI Community Science Program proposal that started six years earlier, researchers put together what they called the … Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories around the …
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… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. So a … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together. The next 3 episodes …
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… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program has been …
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… (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes. …
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… genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …
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… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and … impact the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale …
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… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted … one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or … in some cases daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote work. …
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… Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. DAN: Hi, again. This is Dan, and you’re listening to the second episode of the Natural Prodcast. This is part 2 of our … in partnering with us, we want to hear from you! We have projects in genome sequencing, DNA synthesis, …
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… In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's …
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… (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision Lead genomic innovation for a sustainable bioeconomy. … users who made use of our data. We completed 39,870 projects in FY24 We generated 871 Terabases of sequence We …
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