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… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one place where you can browse the … metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative analysis of fungal genomes, and Phytozome for comparing plant genomes. …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process … with Woyke, two JGI users were also elected to the AAM: fungal researcher Jason Stajich of the University of …

… directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, … Genomics and Computational Biology … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella …

… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have … interact; beyond bacteria, these samples harbored fungal genomes, including a novel Leotiomycetes species and …

… function in bacteria. Since 2016, he has been the lead of the User Support Analysis group. The group performs … datasets generated by JGI user science projects. … BS in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, Nottingham … board member for Scientific Reports … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually … Armaleo and colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the US Department of Energy …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of this polar environment. This cycle suggests a reliance on …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …