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… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is the head …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … sustainable biofuel production. The JGI published a partial sequence of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in 2003; then in 2007 … of all kinds,” noted Igor Grigoriev, head of the JGI’s Fungal & Algal Program, including work with Olivier Vallon …
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… Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … 4th year PhD student in Quantitative and Systems Biology Mentor: Guohong Wu, Plant Comparative Analysis What … graduate student Mentors: Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, Fungal and Algal Program What effect has your summer …
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… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …
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… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On August 6, 2021, version … Questions about the transition from Phytozome v12 to v13. Why is it necessary to retire Phytozome v12? The codebase … preset for the gene in question, so you can download sequences, annotations, and gene structures. These genomes’ …
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… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … industry,” said Justin North, assistant professor of microbiology at Ohio State University and senior author of this … isolate it. The JGI provided a range of constructs based on sequences for MAR enzymes from different organisms to …
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… fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by … that released a very high quality reference genome sequence of green millet ( Setaria viridis ) in Nature … consortium, they conducted a large-scale comparison of 135 fungal sequenced genomes to understand how plants and fungi …
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… with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the … Cross-Disciplinary Training Grant, Sigma-Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary …
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