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Advisory Committee (SAC) is a board convened by the JGI Director to provide a scientific and technical overview of the JGI. The SAC is chartered to render advice, guidance, and … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the JGI. The SAC serves as the Institute's key external advisory …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high … U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. For the sphagnome project, germplasm establishment …

Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it … cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. … ocean could fix less carbon when infected. Little is known about virus-infected microbial cells that are transformed …

… peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches … ranging from wetlands to tree islands to cattails. In 2018, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute … to apply the latest molecular techniques to learn more about the microbial communities in the Arthur R. Marshall …

… exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that … Synthesis Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave back in 2016.” Alper’s first approved JGI proposal came through the …

As an Integrative Genome Science User Facility, the JGI plays a leadership role in enabling the frontiers of … Technologies and Data Science & Informatics. The JGI also sustains a vibrant community of postdoctoral and early career …

… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … Antilles and a co-first author on the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify and classify the … explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have never been studied …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … are.” But according to a new study published September 16, 2021 in Nature Communications , warmer waters and … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions … metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated … can help to understand its impact on climate along earth history.” Marker genes for diverse methane metabolisms Of …

Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research groups. The team … specific conditions – in over a dozen plants. To learn more about the project, HudsonAlpha’s Research Communication … It was developed to improve plant genome annotations at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)*, …

The JGI leverages its existing partnerships and develops others … expand data functionality. Close partnerships with other user facilities enable the ability to leverage their … through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program.     …