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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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects … outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s CSP investigators,” said Tanja Woyke, Deputy Director …

… big the room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional … but we knew the families,” Kyrpides said. Yet, “almost 20 years of metagenomic data and metagenomic analysis, and … of new protein families had started to plateau in recent years, perhaps suggesting that scientists had “captured” …