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… of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or … encoded in the genome sequence is part of the integrative science mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) focuses on a fungal comparative ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We …

… Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and they agreed, providing three articles for the journal with Du Toit as their editor. The partnership has … researcher Sara Calhoun, data scientist Stephen Mondo, and  Fungal and Algal program lead Igor Grigoriev took readers on …

… genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers … They hypothesized that certain gene families — including fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the … of the  Marchantia pangenome, scientists developed a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific …

… of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … in finding ways to boost visibility of the CSP to encourage more plant proposals and provide feedback on … Area. He has partnered with the JGI through several user programs. He’s also bringing his fungal genetics expertise …

… JGI staff who mentored students this past year, through programs including the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program and the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. (Watch … that anaerobic fungi from herbivore poop might be a new source of novel compounds to help bolster the bioeconomy. …

… revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental … in the U.S. Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop rotation, but soybean ( Glycine …

… regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better understand how beneficial organisms … that bacteria living within a host (endosymbionts) have on fungal host reproduction, and the reproductive genes they … As these oil-producing fungi are potential sustainable sources of alternative fuels, so understanding …

… and capabilities we offer JGI users to help advance their science. … a vision for future technical JGI directions for DOE User science. … of Regents Working Group on “NIH Comparative Genomics Resource” 2021-  Co-Chair, “Advances in Genome Biology & … Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2020- National Advisory Council, National …

… Faculty interested in developing proposals with JGI and Biosciences Area researchers should contact David Gilbert …

… into a written report that is published in a scientific journal is the ultimate achievement. To get to this point … and it feels so rewarding,” Wint said. For Axel Visel, JGI Science Deputy and a co-founder of the internship program, … in 2018. She selected one of the projects posted by JGI fungal researchers, Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, and …