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PCR and Omics Based Techniques to Study the Diversity, Ecology and Biology of Anaerobic Fungi: Insights, Challenges and Opportunities
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Transcription Factor Family-Based Reconstruction of Singleton Regulons and Study of the Crp/Fnr, ArsR, and GntR Families in Desulfovibrionales Genomes
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Eelgrass Proves to Be Much Younger Than We Thought
… one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, … its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time estimates … ago. The study shows that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the …
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The Case for Conservation
… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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SIPs with Standards
… Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those nutrients, and even how quickly. … catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible …
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Exploring Possibilities: 2022 JGI-UC Merced Interns
… In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer internship … Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new … the, the internship that maybe I didn’t have as good of skills as somebody else might have. But Robert, uh, Bob …
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Global Diversity of the Brachypodium Species Complex as a Resource for Genome-Wide Association Studies Demonstrated for Agronomic Traits in Response to Climate
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Targeted and shotgun metagenomic approaches provide different descriptions of dryland soil microbial communities in a manipulated field study
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Systematic Identification of Gene Families for Use as “Markers” for Phylogenetic and Phylogeny-Driven Ecological Studies of Bacteria and Archaea and Their Major Subgroups
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Genome-Wide Association Studies across Environmental and Genetic Contexts Reveal Complex Genetic Architecture of Symbiotic Extended Phenotypes
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Hiroshi Otani
… the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly … and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and …
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Natural Prodcast Episode 23: Aaron Puri
… DAN: Hey, everybody. Welcome back for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon … natural products chemistry, and he has a project with the JGI to synthesize the genes for and explore the chemistry of … episode , you’ve heard a little about these, and Aaron and JGI are working together to try to understand the enzymology …
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