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… technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of … for both student and faculty researchers. Aligning with this overarching goal, Myco-Ed is a partnership … 4), and Conclusions and Publishing (Module 5) – that enables student-curated  FAIR (findable, accessible, …

… directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of the Human Genome Project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team has continued to develop … Publications … Selected Publications …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during … School of Natural Sciences since 2015. Prospective users with specific questions regarding their proposed research … is the Microbial Science Program Head as well as our Deputy of User Programs. Click to learn more about the program's …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … These resources would provide the research community with the ability to address questions such as sphagnum’s …

… Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, … as an environmentally sustainable and cost-effective biomass for production of renewable fuels and chemicals.  …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year to do so. As such, they are considered to … of them archaea. The Quake lab had previously collaborated with the JGI on a proposal using this approach through the …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have … sequenced, this line is sweeter, taller, and grows more biomass. In ongoing work, JGI and collaborators are continuing …

… Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies … Cross-Disciplinary Training Grant, Sigma-Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary …

… sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …