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… so nice and helpful.”     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and really open to talking about their work. It’s fun to be around people who are generous with their time and like nerding out about the big stuff, well, the little stuff! People hold …

… discovered more than 6,000 mitochondrial sequences previously unrecognized within existing public databases and … that carry them were strikingly different in both size and organization: Mitochondrial genome size and structure varied …

… a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers at two … The Impact Biomaterials are materials produced by living organisms. The collaboration between the JGI and the Foundry … can synthesize other bio-based materials. For information about licensing the patented osteoyeast for hydroxyapatite …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … by the Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, based in Braunschweig, … information as well as of important descriptive metadata about each strain. “This has been a very fruitful …

… database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. …

… called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these weird little pods. …

… provides bioinformatics tools and analysis support for user science, with a focus on metagenomes. Passionate about automation and collaboration, she works to develop and …

… State have been succumbing to a pathogen. This ‘“alien’” organism — one previously unseen — is, in fact, a microscopic water mold, … scores of nurseries across the nation, elevating concerns about the pathogen to an all-time high. California … Release: JGI, VBI Describe Evolutionary Origin, Disease-Causing Mechanisms of Sudden Oak Death, Related Soybean …

… domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with … they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … and seed yield. Conversely, some crops such as bioenergy sorghum may need sterile males; plant breeding experiments … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …

… began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third the size of the United States began forming in … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … free-living microbes that can fix carbon dioxide replaced organic matter scavengers. This preliminary model aligns …

… fungi can form such symbiotic partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … The team then compared this dataset against nearly 80 previously published fungal genomes on the JGI data portal …