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Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing … work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The … yields and improving their abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The reference … tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets descend from two now-extinct progenitors. …

… have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and … from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program that offered a handful of graduate students summer research … Clarissa Nobile, investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades … insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches some 580,000 square miles across southern … Everglades in Palm Beach County, and particularly about the microbes that play roles in the methane cycle. Their data …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to … to provide the foundational biological understanding that opens up new ways to harness biology. This new plan … agenda across our scientific programs, as well as workshops that gave participants hands-on experience with the data …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The … easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; … Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only around 30% …

… the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s … Their talks shed light on how the JGI was established, all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in … currently works to support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have relevance …

Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut … to seek other ways to make morels fruit under artificial environments, a technique to supply exogenous nutrients was … supply to the soil. In contrast, isotopic evidence showed that morel mycelium colonizing the lignocellulosic-abundant …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. … ensuring genes vital for growth and survival across various environments are expressed when their functions are needed. …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for … uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques …