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JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the … in a species,” O’Malley said. “It’s a unique capability; no one else can do it in the world at this scale.” A bottleneck …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against … that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate … many different products out, instead of the more typical, one enzyme, one product. At each step, the zealexin pathway …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … only for viruses and other microbes , but for scientists. One emerging industry application of DGRs is to use them to … Science Program (CSP), the G. Unger Vetlesen and Ambrose Monell Foundations, the Natural Sciences and Engineering …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … and Coniochaeata lignaria , and both DNA and RNA viruses. One trait that stood out in both bacteria and fungi …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One example, published in Nature , applied single-cell …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild … a senior author of the paper. “This paper is the first one to survey a huge amount of natural diversity and say, … is also a HudsonAlpha Faculty Investigator. “This could be another mechanism to turn off shattering and domesticate …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a …