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… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … that bacteria living within a host (endosymbionts) have on fungal host reproduction, and the reproductive genes they … , is recognized as a mutualist, where both species of organism benefit from association, but was predicted to …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … A third story from the issue — Machine learning-based prediction of activity and substrate specificity for OleA …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … feedback on pangenome tool development. Maurice is a fungal evolutionary ecologist with interests in …

…   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid … relationships than other algae, Auxenochlorella ’s reduced genomic complexity can accelerate the …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

… Interns contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab protocols at the bench to applying artificial intelligence to aspects of research questions Another intern summer has closed at … Robert Riley, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Kurt LaButti Project:  Prediction and Identification of Mitochondrial Plasmids from …

… Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … science.  Dr. Sneddon is an accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab … Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at Predicine, an NGS-based clinical …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … is an inbred dicot,” Schmutz explained, meaning the plant’s reduced genetic diversity makes it easier to genetically …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … able to tell the students that the paper was accepted for publication in a reputable scientific journal. It was …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team … MB) and NSF  1706545 (IW). HA and JW were supported by the Office of Naval Research under grant  N00014-15-1-2785 . JW …

… Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … to look at gene expression in both plant cells and fungal cells. Using a technique called single nuclei RNA …