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… Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar … environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo scientists and … and var. shastensis from North America – against a third fungal Serpula species, S. himantioides from Europe, that …

… has had leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and … Trent Northen is the Metabolomics Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about … UC Berkeley Haas School of Business DOE Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership …

… to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant … with GENESPACE, a computational tool for comparative genomics.   With a more robust reference genome, researchers …

… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time.  “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene … group. It’s just a massive amount of sequencing.”  A Resource for Many Applications Kellogg noted that C4 crops have …

… on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a … be the first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from … can successfully partner with DOE user facilities and resources on such large-scale multi-omic data efforts, but also …

… The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint … Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), and Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision  Lead … complex biological and environmental systems. We optimize our service to the community through responsibly managing …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — … secondary metabolites and associated genes are great resources for bioremediation, new agricultural applications or … studied in plant research laboratories and plant biology courses across the globe for insights into reproductive, …

… Michael Brandt (Operations Deputy), Horst Simon (Science Deputy), Jeff Blair (Chief Laboratory Counsel) and … in his event remarks. “I feel that is something crucial to our success, and Ray has been that. That person needs … to the ever-shifting landscape of funding Federal for programs, noted that “Ray is someone who just will get it …

… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by … cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by researchers at Australia’s … the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the Arizona Genomics Institute. The work was partly enabled by the JGI’s …

… they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple microbiology and … host cells. In the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team led by Rick Cavicchioli at the University … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, experimentally demonstrated that …

… helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal … relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from … able to grow in marginal lands and with minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass …

… approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity … changes. Summary Researchers have been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture … with >90% completeness. These results, noted JGI User Programs Deputy Susannah Tringe , suggest that extracting …