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Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of analysis would provide a … each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, protist, plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 …
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… their 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 affiliated with the JGI . The 2019 list focused on Highly Cited Papers, defined in the Methodology section as “those that rank in the … an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, section Nigri. Aspergillus fungi play important roles in areas ranging from industrial …
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… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership … Swift CL, et al. Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. …
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Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA …
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Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in …
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The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …
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Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms …
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… genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme … relationship between plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), known to provide plants with nutrients and …
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Registration and Agenda Coming Soon! Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the …
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To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for …
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Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems …
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