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… quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over the world, scientists have discovered giants among viruses. Now … makeup of new giant viruses. This review highlights four of these approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses …

… led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the … is triggered when nutrients are acquired from an external source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes … and his patent has proven difficult to reproduce. While scientists and biotechnological engineers all over the world …

… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time.  “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene …

… On September 1, JGI held a JGI Engagement: Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting … Investigator call for proposals.  Tips: Contact us with your questions (jgi[email protected]) Carefully read … working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… work results from a collaboration involving more than 200 scientists, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Path for Metagenomics Researchers Building upon these resources, KBase, a multi-institutional collaborative knowledge …

… community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency … populations rely heavily on groundwater as their only source of clean drinking water. Over 90% of the PCE in the … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… terpene synthase gene family across eucalypt lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor … proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to … between the two species. The work was reported in the journal Heredity . In order to understand the gene expression …

… described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms … a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have used sequencing methods for the first time … interactions. This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew …

… On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single … provide scholarships or financial support, but they provide scientists with accepted proposals free access to their …

… the Florida Everglades to help train the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience … class at Florida’s Boca Raton Community High School. The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) , a DOE Office of Science User Facility. She took special interest in it …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and compute … and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled …

… is for investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be independent of ongoing JGI proposals, and lead PIs cannot have been lead PI on any previously accepted JGI CSP or FICUS proposal.   Competitive projects will … Proposers are encouraged to review the JGI’s sample requirements . Samples …