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The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off with 12 plants, which are JGI Flagship Plants, mostly related to … is an updateable resource. To demonstrate that, we included datasets from two species, one of which is sweet sorghum Rio …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these … feedstocks, algae are tiny but mighty. An analysis in the 2017 Bioeconomy Report estimated that the United States has … sequence and then analyze the genomes and multi-omics datasets for algae that can be used for large-scale …

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 next generation of flowering vegetation. In …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one place where you can browse the … and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative analysis of fungal …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or … The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … Frontiers Group, the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National …

Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are among … in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, reported on over the …

JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced … and can serve no more than two consecutive terms. In late 2021, the JGI launched a solicitation for nominations for …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … and Environmental Research under Award Number DE-SC0018420. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy … sinensis genome … CABBI Sequences Miscanthus Genome … Datasets … From our partners …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process …

The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. …

A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, … and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  recently published in the journal  … research by then-Biosciences scientist Diane Dickel in 2017. In 2019, plant single-cell methods were officially …