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… began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … scarce during the heatwave, they saw populations shift. Smaller picoplankton and free-living microbes that can fix …

… fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … published fungal genomes on the JGI data portal MycoCosm . They looked for genes known to be involved in …

… development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for … changes in DNA, called single nucleotide polymorphisms. Using the pangenome resource and new analysis methods … how we think of things that we thought we knew everything about,” said Lovell.  In future work, a pangenome offers …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This year, the 12th JGI-UC Merced cohort … Abdulqader Mentors: Andrei Steindorff, Robert Riley, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Kurt LaButti Project:  Prediction and … video below to see what some of the interns had to say about their time at the lab. …

… amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, … productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team led by … At the 2021 JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked about a multi-year study his student conducted involving …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … arms race in uncultivated yet abundant subsurface organisms was  recently reported in Nature Communications. The … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …

… leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI users.  Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high … by routing the carbon away from methanogens. In The ISME Journal, a team led by researchers from the University …

… will take place November 18-19, 2026 on the UC Berkeley campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this … together a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral …

… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … most bacteria, their DNA floats freely within the cytoplasm of their cells. This newly discovered species of bacteria … explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have never been studied …

… .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national efforts to promote and … create genomics-enabled insights into a vast range of organisms and ecosystems. These kinds of data could open … support of our goals,” said Mouncey. “Creating transparency about our efforts is critical for enabling complementary and …

… targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and … traditional shotgun metagenomics approach to learning more about environmental samples starts with researchers first … using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) into smaller, less diverse pools before being subjected to genome …