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… to help bolster the bioeconomy. Summary A team led by Michelle O’Malley, a chemical engineer at the University … horse in Massachusetts, in their hunt for anaerobic fungi. By growing extracts without oxygen in ruminant fluid — which … In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… perennial grasses using Panicum hallii (Hall’s panicgrass), by generating two complete genomes from varieties that diverged over a million years ago. The hallii variety thrives in desert environments, … plant biomass into sustainable fuels for cars and jets. By studying a close relative model species like P. hallii , …

… Polymorphisms Created by Transposable Elements …

… The battle waged below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) … which help bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and … reported in Nature Communications. The work was co-led by Victoria Turzynski in Alexander Probst’s lab at the …

… of the physical memorabilia that she’s held onto over the years. The DOE brought together the people and resources from … DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next seven years, and in collaboration with researchers at the Stanford …

… of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed Marsarchaeota. The Impact Iron cycling is thought to have … applications. Molecular biology has benefited from heat-stable enzymes derived from thermophiles, stabilizing the … found in iron-oxide microbial mats. The reddish hues caused by the presence of iron led Inskeep and his colleagues to …

… and Burkholderia endobacteria, a collaborative effort led by researchers at Cornell University and scientists at the … fungus reliant on the continued presence of the bacteria. By studying the Rm-Burkholderia symbiosis model, the team … This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National …

… the Methodology section as “those that rank in the top 1% by citations for papers published and cited between … of the JGI plant portal Phytozome, which is overseen by 2017 Highly Cited Researcher David Goodstein. Go here to …

… (including LBNL students and postdocs): $250      Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, … for cultivating new bacteria and archaea revealed by a recent genome census . A key outcome will be a a … and the tour. (Participants will meet at the hotel lobby to take a bus.) * Optional Field Trip to Red Rock Canyon …

… way for plants to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen. Both sugarcane and corn share this … improve the genome’s accuracy, and increase its length by 29.5 Megabasepairs. 2017: Pan-genome analysis of sorghum begins. Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program, Todd Mockler and his …

… of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by Clarivate Analytics. Those from the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor … Tree of Life.  Its latest addition — made possible in part by contributions from  Ivanova, Woyke, Marcel Huntemann, …

… DGR could mutate the virus’ tail fiber proteins, and thereby allow them to embrace different cells. Since that … been clear. Now, to answer these questions, a team led by scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … available data, approximately half of which was generated by the JGI, to uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single …