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The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … genomes to a diploid state while retaining multiple copies of some genes. This polyploidization process is ongoing and …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of analysis would provide a …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the … … Metabolomics Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has released their 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 affiliated with the JGI . The 2019 list focused … an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, section Nigri. Aspergillus fungi play important roles in areas ranging from industrial …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in … relationship between plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), known to provide plants with nutrients and …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the …