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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories around the …

… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … by which these fungi break down lignin will require further research, including confirming the genes and the …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … as an even more complex and dynamic environment. By further streamlining the process for studying such microbial …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated … one of which was directly characterized by RIViT-seq. Further application of RIViT-seq to other transcription …

… (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State … and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

… yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …

… UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for … one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or …

… In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's …

… di-GMP (Guanine Monophosphate) is found in nearly all types of bacteria and interacts with cell signaling networks that … role in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which affects a number of environments, … for biosensor activity in bacterial lysates without further purification. The best biosensor candidates were …

… single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … genomes than many bacteria. Until recently, understanding of giant viruses came primarily from sampling an … — could be a future option to discovering giant viruses. Further, single-marker gene based surveys allow researchers …