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… in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 … graduate student Mentors: Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, Fungal and Algal Program What effect has your summer … During my internship, I got to work with an enormous set of fungal genomics data. For me, it was an opportunity to adapt …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific … in 2018. She selected one of the projects posted by JGI fungal researchers, Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, and … “Fungi are the masters of adaptation,” Wint explained. The fungal kingdom contains over one million different species …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy … manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is …

… Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department … feedback on pangenome tool development. Maurice is a fungal evolutionary ecologist with interests in … Investigator proposal to understand the genetic basis of fungal community assembly on dead wood decomposition. She’s …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding … viruses. Now categorized in their own phylum,  Nucleocytoviricota , these giant viruses boast larger genomes than … microeukaryote, forms large algal blooms in the ocean that cycle environmental carbon and sulfur. A giant virus, the  …

… Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with interactive web-based tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. …

… changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any … can thus have significant impacts on the global nutrient cycles regulated by their hosts. For example, microbes that …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … to look at gene expression in both plant cells and fungal cells. Using a technique called single nuclei RNA … captured molecular information from both plant cells and fungal cells. “Because this technology relies on just …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … challenges. Maximizing soybean yield is critical to energy independence in the U.S. Not only does it pair … it simply doesn’t yield enough gallons of fuel per acre to compete with gasoline. Yet.  In 2010, soybean became the …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements … This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also … and Environmental Research (BER) (89233218CNA000001 to L.A.N.L., DE-AC05-00OR22725 to O.R.N.L., DEAC05-76RL01830 …

… User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “This represents the largest … are hallmarks of different cell types.” His contribution to the paper also aligns with his DOE  Early Career Research … with the JGI’s growing efforts in establishing plant and fungal single-cell and spatial transcriptomic technologies, …

… and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their schedules were filled with … Kamel, A Comparative Analysis of Metabolic Pathways in Fungal Pathogens Shayna Bennett and mentor Robert Bowers, … Tools and Exploring Novel BGC Detection Techniques on Fungal Genomes Video Transcript: Emerald Nash : What I’m …