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… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper … of a pivotal plant as well as the evolution of seed plants, the fern’s distant cousin. Ceratopteris richardii, or … to Z.-H.C.). B.A.A. and D.W.S. acknowledge funding for this project from the Ambrose Monell Foundation. … Ceratopteris …
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… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool recently described in Nature Biotechnology called geNomad identifies and … used computational resources from the Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of the U.S. …
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… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. … switchgrass respond to pronounced climate shifts. (C4 plants use a more efficient form of photosynthesis that …
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Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on … was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of …
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New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced … Lawrence. Olmstead and Lawrence were the first participants in the DOE JGI/University of California, Merced … challenges UC Merced graduate students with individual projects at the DOE JGI that provide hands-on experience in …
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Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI … anyone in the Institute to get feedback and insights on the project and everyone’s willingness to guide or mentor me … one that incorporates big data. A large part of my project this summer was utilizing a high performance cluster …
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New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from … award 0000238431 to D.H., the GENOBIOREF (BIO2017-86559-R) project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation …
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Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the … with long standing virus-host interactions. The ISME Journal 15, 1569–1584. Nayfach et al., 2020. CheckV assesses …
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Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … of DGRs is to use them to create collections of protein variants, produced in engineered viruses or microbial cells. … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work in the Hallam Lab was performed …
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… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … to Ray and most of the rest of the 200-plus Zoom participants. While the virtual mic shifted to Ray for his … at a high level as JGI transitioned from the Human Genome Project to gaining momentum as a national user facility. He …
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… a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of … gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA. …
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A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The … microbial populations. The work appeared in The ISME Journal . Members of the Dunfield lab collected samples from … to PFD (2019-06265). This work was also sponsored by NSF grants DEB-1441717, OCE-1335810, and OIA-1826734 to RS. …
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