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As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a … from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks … the human genome.  By 2000, a drafted human genome was produced by a joint effort between public and private …

… their expertise to enhance the scientific impact of user projects, develop cutting edge approaches for and with users, and create computational tools and resources for them. Their concerted efforts help maximize the JGI’s impact in advancing …

… results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for … most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ … DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called …

… a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to … able to receive training for the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) portal for their sample …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce these enzymes to break down polysaccharides. But …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … has partnered with researchers around the world to map out genomes of rumen microbes. In 2018, through a JGI Community … Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories around the …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the … genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new … award 0000238431 to D.H., the GENOBIOREF (BIO2017-86559-R) project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation …

… plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which were isolated … Change’ (SPP 2237), and grant 410739858 in the frame of the project CharMod to K.v.S., as well as RE 1697/16-1 (CharMod) …