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… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced the shrub willows through the  Community Science …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared … program under Award No DE-FC02-02ER63421. The meiosis gene identification was performed in the context of work …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the … worked with a wide range of eukaryotic algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to developing a deeper understanding of sequence-based gene function. … B.Sc. (HONS) – University of …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon than all other vegetation types in … affect their growth rates, decomposition, and carbon sequestration. Researchers wanted to better understand how …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

The Sequencing Technologies Group applies cutting edge molecular capabilities and state-of-the-art next-generation sequencing to enable biological discovery by the JGI and …

… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … together a puzzle without necessarily knowing the final image. In contrast, assembling the sugarcane genome was more … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

… and strategic objectives of the JGI. The SAC serves as the Institute's key external advisory panel and advocate of the … include providing technical input on large-scale production sequencing, new sequencing technologies, and related informatics; overview …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By … 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  Further analysis led to the identification of 328 “high quality” (based on completeness) …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from …

WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing resources, …

… for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of biosynthetic gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he spent time …