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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility … biodiversity, ecology, and evolution, with a focus on microbiome sciences and fungal symbioses. He has worked … Program over the past decade in gene regulatory network projects supported by the CSP, and as part of microbiome …

… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 … through the  CSP New Investigator call . It is the first project to have successfully evolved into a full-scale … metabolite-producing environmental bacteria from the Tiny Earth collection. The work builds upon a pilot project to …

… stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and … and how these conditions impact the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and … DOE Office of Science National User Facilities in a single project. … FTICR-MS analyses were performed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, … head.  Dr. Fagnan is also a co-PI for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative where she leads infrastructure … Kjiersten Fagnan is the JGI's Chief Informatics Officer. Click to learn more about how the JGI …

… Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for … , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained by the U.S. …

… between 3-12 consecutive months. Their proposed research projects address scientific challenges central to Office of … Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … and the interactions of plants with their associated microbiomes. Tringe was also Kaze’s mentor during her 2018 …

… research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and … research results in genomics, metagenomics and the human microbiome. The workshop will train participants in … training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by Rekha Seshadri and …

… and their JGI mentors are listed below, along with their project focus areas: Undergraduate Interns Andrew Lin and … Genetic Elements and CRISPR Spacers in the Conifer Needle Microbiome Carlos Vazquez and mentor Bryce Foster, … Ecology & Evolution of Self-Catalytic Introns across Earth’s Microbiomes Sonia Vargas and mentors Tomas Tyml and …

… Learn more about JGI’s  PhycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics … your Tree ever differ from NCBI Taxonomy? A(nswer): If you find that our trees are incorrect or need to be changed, … the resources for free. 8.  Q: What makes a successful project? A: Combination of: DOE mission relevance Science …

… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set … Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve …

… Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome … the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase), the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab …