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… Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … and cell wall structure in the poplar plants with help from scientists at the NSLS-II.  These findings lay the …

… Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), led the project. He explained that large language models—artificial … machines. It has been applied in a variety of industries, from the health care to the financial sector — whether to … ecological Harvard Forest project, large datasets from soil microbiome studies collected across various terrains, and …

… other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when sunlight becomes scant, Ace … for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows that the way nutrients flow through the … The study was led by Rick Cavicchioli, professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and included …

… and also made new friends while working on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to … Vogel Project: Characterization of Brachypodium distachyon root transporters in plant-microbiome interactions ” Cory-James Pugne-Andenoro : “The …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an … The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … A team led by Michelle O’Malley, a chemical engineer at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, collected the …

… — nitrogenases — other enzymatic machinery harvests sulfur from gaseous organic sulfur compounds in the atmosphere.  … North, assistant professor of microbiology at Ohio State University and senior author of this work.  North led the … way from sequencing to functional characterization, and a project like this — an exciting project — we were able to …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a … the primary author on this publication and drove the entire project, Visel explained. She continued working virtually … covering the entire kingdom of fungi. “The information from this project may also have a practical relevance with …

… after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford Human … sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples from common gardens growing across the country. The national … techniques. A 2020 Nature Biotechnology paper on the release of the high quality reference genome sequence of …

… The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … of genetic diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a … retrieved using the  JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data portal. The IMG suite is a …

… went to the Berkeley Lab team comprised of JGI and ExaBiome Project team, supported by the DOE Exascale Computing Project. The award recognized the release of MetaHipMer, an end-to-end genome assembler that supports “an unprecedented assembly of environmental microbiomes.” JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer  Kjiersten …

… and graduate students to engage in real, impactful research projects with JGI mentors. In this episode, hear two interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into …