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… served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development of … Brachypodium. Genetics, 223 (2), art. no. iyac146 DOI: 10.1093/genetics/iyac146 Gordon, et. al. 2020 Gradual polyploid … Varoquaux, et. al.N. 2019 Transcriptomic analysis of field-droughted sorghum from …

… diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program which … deconstruction by anaerobic fungi.  Nature Microbiol. 8(4):596-610. Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in … microbiome diversity and function.  Nature Microbiol. 7(9):1419-1430. Ye et al (2022) The role of zinc in the …

… 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 …

… Students & Postdocs – $200 Regular Rates (begin September 19, 2026) General & Berkeley Lab Attendee – $300 Students & … Applications (VEGA) symposium will take place November 18-19, 2026 on the UC Berkeley campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this symposium is to bring …

… 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 …

… 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 … diversification events occurred approximately 650 million years ago, and that the first terrestrial fungi predate the …

… 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 …

… list of genes, termed  The GreenCut2 Resource . It details 597 genes coding for proteins that are unique to …

… involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the North … 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 …

… and lay a future-ready foundation     Over the past billion years, fungi have spread quietly throughout our planet. From … the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, making it nearly 30 times older than the entire human … diversity of fungal genomes that has evolved over a billion years of evolution offers catalogs of enzymes, secondary …

… 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 …

… why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is …