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… is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects … dam removal to Antarctica’s photosynthetic mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and contribute to global …

… and postdocs (including LBNL students and postdocs): $250      Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the … previous NeLLi Symposia. In this 2025 Symposium, we will showcase the latest research on the evolution of cellular … symbioses. We aim to foster discussions centered on how to capture, define, quantify, and functionally …

… Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into how the multiple chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient … is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets descend from two now-extinct … sequenced. Understanding the evolution of polyploidy, and how genomes respond to extra chromosome and gene copies, …

… to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of … and bioproducts. Learn more about our proposals, including how to apply, here on our website. The approved proposals …

… DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities … leads to photosynthetic defects, offering insights into how algal ponds can regulate photosynthesis under … McDermott and his colleagues are interested in determining how soil moisture influences the soil microbiome and …

… and giant viruses offered the researchers insights into how they might interact with their hosts, and how those interactions may in turn impact the host … out and characterize uncultivated viruses. For instance, a 2018 study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in …

… for  biofuels and other bioproducts. Finally, understanding how brown rust disease resistance works in sugarcane could … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane … a full representation of the diversity present in R570 but shows the genomic effects of breeding practices that …

… down polysaccharides. But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful … bacterial clades can metabolize hemicellulose and pectin. However, the two specialize to an extent.  Gilliamella  … of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey bees and bumblebees showed that strains in bumblebees more often lack the ability …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … Lab researchers working with the JGI successfully simulated how successive waves of microbial populations degraded the …

… a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when nutrients are acquired … assimilated carbon into the soil, reducing the amount of CO2 emissions from decaying leaves and woods into the … the fruiting of soil saprotrophic mushrooms. To date, how the nutritional acquisition of the morel mycelium is …

… [DNA Synthesis Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave back in 2016.” Alper’s first approved JGI proposal came through the … development and its applications. “I moved to UC Davis in 2014,” recalled Philipp Zerbe of the University of … proposals by a consortium. The consortium looked at how different bioenergy relevant plants can produce …

… experimentally derived biological roles to genes. Sarah:  How many plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off with 12 plants, which are JGI Flagship Plants, mostly related to … project. Sarah:  I assume you were not doing this alone. How many groups were you working with? Avinash: In the …