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… wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of videos produced by JGI … Click the image to watch the video … Intern: Brendan Blasius (undergraduate) Mentor: Guohong "Albert" Wu Click the …

December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for … proposals: Collaborate With a U.S. DOE User Facility: Learn About Available Expertise and Resources, Open-Call … Colorado State University: “Putting microorganisms on the map: continental-scale context for thousands of newly …

… of biology and computer science, to reveal clues about how microbial and bacteria communities influence the … on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand into the world of … Sphagnum peatmoss resilience to warming . New Phytol. 2022 Jun;234(6):2111-2125. doi: 10.1111/nph.18072.   Byline: …

… and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the data provided. In this proof of concept test, the team reported that the algorithm was over 95% successful at …

… scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms … a technique called spatial transcriptomics, to generate maps of gene expression. This spatial transcriptomics … circular capture areas roughly 55-microns in diameter — about the width of a human hair. At such resolution, this …

… particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and … in bacterial RiPP biosyntheses. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. 2023 Feb 17;50(1):kuad005.  Otani H, Udwary DW, Mouncey NJ. … and pangenomic analysis of the genus Streptomyces. Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 7;12(1):18909. Otani H, Mouncey NJ. RIViT-seq …

Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the … the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan … acquire the permits to do so. They used images from Google maps to plan their route, and had to adapt when they noticed …

… ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental … researchers have been able to gain further insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar … Nanohaloarchaeota were predicted to be capable of autonomous growth because they had larger genome sizes and their …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii … managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … these gaps of knowledge. In a study published November 11, 2022, in Cell Genomics , the team focused on Actinobacteria … information as well as of important descriptive metadata about each strain. “This has been a very fruitful …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal Nature . The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI …

… training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal … Algal Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and … fungi.  Nature Microbiol. 8(4):596-610. Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome …