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… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for … on secondary metabolites. He is also on the Leadership Team of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative and served as …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play … a recent Nature Communications paper . The work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro and  in vivo experiments, …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can …

… sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … a broad range of activities from proposal intake to publication. Information is also obtained and cross-checked …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern … Alper said. “We’re exploring not just what can be enabled by this technology, but also what we can understand …

… genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” … in the June issue of  Studies in Mycology . This work was enabled in part through  JGI’s  Community Science Program … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … and stress-resistance as well as nitrogen fixation; and has enabled discoveries in additional crops such as peanuts, …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese … countries. Genome and transcriptome sequencing were enabled by the Community Science Program (CSP) at the U.S. …

… bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. …

… (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director of the MPI … levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The work was enabled in part through the Community Science Program (CSP) …