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… from UDE familiarized themselves with the research programs and user facilities at Berkeley Lab. Commenting on the visit, JGI Director Nigel Mouncey expressed enthusiasm about the potential of this collaboration stating, “We … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there are soil saprotrophs, which degrade plant detritus. Despite the different modes of nutrition, many of these … in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host and …

… Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of … several plant genome projects through the Community Science Program. As a UEC member, he’s interested in finding ways to … JGI offers, as well as proposal review procedures and the organization of the JGI Annual Meeting. Any investigator who …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to … Colder waters nearer the poles, however, tend to favor eukaryotes ( microorganisms with a nucleus). These … other words, some like it hot; some do not. “We can think about the ocean, naively, as a sort of homogeneous medium. …

… alga into a powerful platform for developing ​​bio-based industrial products.    The Science Scientists have fully … for producing specialty oils, chemical feedstocks and industrial precursors — as well as to better enable the mining … of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program to advance a fundamental understanding of genome …

… of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … is actually essential. Through the JGI’s  Community Science Program , the scientists thus set out to identify which … an approach, the team says, that could be applied to other eukaryotes. …

… The JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and … JGI offers, as well as proposal review procedures and the organization of the JGI Annual Meeting. Any investigator who …

… explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has desirable properties as a … the JGI has also helped researchers understand a fungus that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian Soybean … ASR can decimate up to 60-90% of its yield.  (Learn more about the soybean genome sequence and ASR in this JGIota, a …

… well as the evolution of seed plants, the fern’s distant cousin. Ceratopteris richardii, or C-fern, specifically has … Genome Initiative in 2018 as part of its Community Science Program. The OGG has set out to generate high-quality genome … of plant-based biofuels and bioproducts. ( Learn more about OGG in  this episode of to the JGI podcast Genome …