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JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … is interested in understanding which species of mycorrhizal fungi are important for poplar plant health, in part to …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … interactions in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Microbiome 199 Needham, D.M. et al. 2019. A distinct …

Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … in: sustainable biofuel and bioproducts production, global carbon and nutrient cycling, and biogeochemistry. You …

… 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis. Further, the …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … , a team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … at protein function within them. The work was led by a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … in the Florida Everglades to help train the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to teach a second …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary across the global ocean. Phytoplankton communities in warmer waters, … that algal communities didn’t change gradually across the global ocean. Instead, they sharply delineated into two big …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … Berkeley National Laboratory, have collaborated with global researchers on projects related to understanding how … viruses and their host microbes impact the regulation of global nutrient cycles. The JGI’s latest strategic plan …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely … kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of analysis would provide a …