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… to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the …
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A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon … feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. … Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms …
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A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon … feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. … Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy … challenges. The Human Genome Project began in 1990 when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with the …
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… archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global … For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of methanogenesis and … suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature …
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… and Agenda Coming Soon! Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, … diversity cataloged and taxonomically classified to date. Under the “sequence to function’ umbrella, this symposium …
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… To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in … can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy … of Stanley Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, when the phone rang. On the line was Jillian Banfield, a …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our … biomass sources in ways we are only just beginning to understand. A better understanding of rumen and the microbes … “It has become a tool widely used,” Leahy told JGI recently when we caught up with her. “… We are very happy that the …
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… research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University … student in the Quantitative Systems Biology (QSB) Group under the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). During his eight …
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JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the … in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one … up as moving boxes are filled and stacked for transport. When considering how to do similarly large moves at the main …
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… independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed on decaying plant matter (saprotrophs) have transitioned to the symbiotic lifestyle. The Impact The analysis enables researchers to understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic …
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