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… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long history of dynamic evolution and rapid changes in both genome content and structure following …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … feedback on pangenome tool development. Maurice is a fungal evolutionary ecologist with interests in understanding which … the UEC.  The UEC represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US … short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function … time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than non-polar algae. They …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the microbial activity that dominates … (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … and bioproducts, Biogeochemistry, and Inter-organismal interactions. Algal research features prominently among the …

… joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … which they have applied and refined in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a model grass system for answers. Their work  recently appeared in  Nature …