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… provides bioinformatics tools and analysis support for user science, with a focus on metagenomes. Passionate about automation and collaboration, she works to develop and …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that … the JGI has also helped researchers understand a fungus that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian Soybean … ASR can decimate up to 60-90% of its yield.  (Learn more about the soybean genome sequence and ASR in this JGIota, a …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism … they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve … crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine … began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for … researchers to harness the traits that let this biomass powerhouse thrive. Within its genome, Sorghum bicolor holds … how we think of things that we thought we knew everything about,” said Lovell.  In future work, a pangenome offers …

… time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the … of the five major lineages of cotton;  G. tomentosum ,  G. mustelinum , and  G. darwinii are the others. All of these … is one such example.” Jones noted that he talks to growers about Cotton Inc.’s long-term investment in crop research. …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host … fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms oil-producing alga into a powerful platform for developing ​​bio-based industrial products.    The Science Scientists have fully … for producing specialty oils, chemical feedstocks and industrial precursors — as well as to better enable the mining …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This year, the 12th JGI-UC Merced cohort … 18 JGI staff. One of the mentors, postdoc Yumary Vasquez, was herself a program alum from the 2022 cohort.  The UC … video below to see what some of the interns had to say about their time at the lab. …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that … amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, … At the 2021 JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked about a multi-year study his student conducted involving …

… Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI users.  Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using …