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… climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. The information could be useful toward the DOE’s interest in … past year, through programs including the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program and the DOE Office of Science … hosted two JGI Engagement Webinars promoting the JGI fungal data portal MycoCosm and the algal portal PhycoCosm. …

… Phytozome. The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to associate climate … about a multi-year study his student conducted involving fungal rust pathogen resistance. Just as the common gardens … and environments. The long-term investments in both the genomics and gardens are helping these shrubby grasses …

… Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome …

… Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers have developed a genomic model to study drought tolerance in perennial grasses using Panicum hallii (Hall’s … and tolerance to stressors such as drought. This information can be applied toward improving crop yields in …

… We perform analysis for diverse experiment types, with main focus areas being genome variation, transcriptomics and epigenomics. Our work varies in scope from the development of …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and … interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that while archaeal hitchhikers may often …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for the first time, that this … , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, … what is now the  Community Science Program Functional Genomics proposal call, the JGI synthesized hundreds of  … work well in further experiments, so she could glean information about their specific function, filling in our …

… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the … microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial … the genome analysis and Bioinformatics core at Integrated Genomics Inc. in Chicago, IL. He did his postdoctoral …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards … animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the Eukaryotic Genome …