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… 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 and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with …

… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. … for 35 species representing all major evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life. Ultimately, the …

… really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis … when starting the lab. It has been, especially from an early career perspective, been absolutely instrumental in a …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference … The team also sequenced genomes of numerous wild Miscanthus lineages to better understand the genetic diversity of the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … doesn’t require this kind of lab culture. Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of … Sorting required multiple speedpaks – large boxes with nearly a cubic yard of capacity each – and dumpsters. The … this year, the third and final annual cleanup day filled nearly 24 speedpaks, and more than half of them were tagged …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … the overall experimental design, sequenced the RNA from nearly 400 root and leaf samples and helped analyze the … relationship between plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), known to provide plants with nutrients and …

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

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

… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … professional development. “There are a lot of really great early career people here at JGI who could take advantage of …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one … 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, …