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… The JGI’s Science Programs offer support to users and their research efforts.  JGI … lend their expertise to enhance the scientific impact of user projects, develop cutting-edge approaches for and … Deputy of Science Programs …

… Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and … The more the better. We want to put at least a microgram of DNA in the tube so you’d need at least 2 micrograms in … spectrometry (LCMS).  We do a hydrolyzation of the DNA and we look and quantify the isotopomers. We …

… Take a virtual tour of the IGB, home of the DOE Joint Genome Institute. To navigate virtual tours of each floor, click and drag to look around the space, use …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia … plants.  Pangenomes encompass a plant’s genetic diversity beyond a single reference genome, which is key to …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … in every major microbial habitat—including soil, water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, the new approach …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The … females, a development conferred by its sex chromosomes. In humans, males are “heterogametic”: they have different sex … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program (DEB-1542509 to S.D., DEB-1542486 to …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have … is the ability to see how microbial communities interact; beyond bacteria, these samples harbored fungal genomes, …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V … LB et al. A thermostable Cas9 with increased lifetime in human plasma. Nat Commun. 2017 Nov 10;8(1):1424. doi: …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the … more complete and evenly covered genomes when tested in human cells. To see if this method could also improve genome …

… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) that allow …