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… Twice each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the JGI’s DNA synthesis and …

… Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three … on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to …

… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS … of Science User Facility, and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase). The JGI and KBase are both supported … reference genomes, but unfortunately there are not many available to study. This is because most fungal clades have …

… cycles, and possibly cold-temperature enzymes for biotechnological use. Summary Conditions such as extreme … understand how they’ve adapted to these conditions, information that could have biotechnological applications. The … level genomic variation. The genome and metagenome data are available through JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & …

… All the sampling activities in Antarctica have been performed in the frame of italian expeditions of the Italian National Program for Antarctic Researches (PNRA),  funded by the Italian …

… to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently … which there were previously no genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 … Lab). All of the fungal genomes used in the study are available on the JGI fungal portal  MycoCosm . The work …

… Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale … focused on stable and accurate computational methods for reacting subsurface flows, and evolved into scalable methods for scientific data analysis. In 2014 Dr. Fagnan became the …

… sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … either a eukaryotic microalga or a cyanobacteria, is known as the “photobiont.” Photobiont and fungus (mycobiont) … team at the JGI contributed to annotation of the genomes, available online at  PhycoCosm (for the alga genome) and  …

… also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton … (eight copies of each chromosome). All of these genomes are available on the JGI plant portal  Phytozome . “The broad …