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… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior … served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development … Scarlett, et. al. 2023 Multiple origins, one evolutionary trajectory: gradual …
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… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and … of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he …
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… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, … studying virus-host dynamics in nature. In the last few years, mapping the planet’s viral diversity has advanced …
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… Bird rates available now General & Berkeley Lab Attendee – $250 Student – $200 Regular Rates (begin September 19, 2026) General & … 18-19, 2026 on the UC Berkeley campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this symposium is to bring … VEGA 26 will take place at the UC Berkeley MLK Building, in the …
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… funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 and DBI-2047598 to K.A. We thank the Department of Energy Joint …
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… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … Olpidium zoospores remained largely untouched until seven years later. In 2018, as members of the ZyGoLife consortium … to the sequencing effort by the JGI and ZyGoLife in recent years. With the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic …
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… more than once, and these events took place a million years apart: the individual with a maternal B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million years ago (Mya), while the S plastotype was a more recent … anticipated with only minor gene loss even after a million years.” Reference genomes for B. distachyon , B. stacei …
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… and longtime JGI collaborator Sabeeha Merchant’s group. In 2011, they inventoried a swath of blueprints to find parts … The end result was a list of genes, termed The GreenCut2 Resource . It details 597 genes coding for proteins that … apt name for a Jane Doe After screening hundreds of GreenCut2 proteins, Blaby-Haas emerged with several ideas of …
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… type of food that was in the contaminated aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were … remain. To identify the microbes involved in the early years of the biodegradation process, researchers collected …
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… and lay a future-ready foundation Over the past billion years, fungi have spread quietly throughout our planet. From … valleys, these organisms have diversified into an estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity of plants. To … the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, making it nearly 30 times older than the entire human …
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… the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program, which started in 2012, and what they’ve discovered through their … papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI … of the DNA Synthesis Science Program by applying to the year-round Community Science Program Functional Genomics …
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… Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018 was 4.6 million metric tons . The global chocolate … why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is …
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