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… hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. … hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but these symbiotic interactions are …
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… quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, … together a puzzle without necessarily knowing the final image. In contrast, assembling the sugarcane genome was more …
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Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan …
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… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the … genes,” Kellogg agreed. “Getting that information is hard. There’s a good reason nobody’s done it; it’s a heck of a …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help …
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On September 1, JGI held a JGI Engagement: Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to … but you don’t need to necessarily just add samples in order to max out the gigabase allocation. Q: Can PhD …
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… expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of … scarf, striped hat, round-rimmed glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described … to propose that the Inoviridae should be classified as an order of viruses, with six families. Additionally, the team …
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… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … Genomes Project and has an interest in cross-disciplinary collaborations. On the UEC she intends to represent the user … don’t spend $50 million in annual research and don’t award at least 70 research doctorates a year. Coinciding with …
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… at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Kyrpides’ research focus on Microbiome … National Laboratory Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (2022) ASM’s USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award (2018) Honorary …
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Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration …
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… team announced in Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for c … recently deployed CRAGE to rapidly label E. coli in order to monitor population dynamics in co-culture. These … removing the editing machinery afterward seamlessly. These collaborations and technical advances demonstrate that CRAGE …
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Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause much damage to the hosts, but they are carriers of several viruses … This process was repeated multiple times in order to obtain enough zoospores. DNA and RNA samples …
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