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… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … Inc. in New Jersey and DSM Nutritional Products in Switzerland, and as Bioengineering and Bioprocessing R&D …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … which they have applied and refined in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a … The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … reservoir of genetic diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a …

… project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … in four forest ecosystems, extracted RNA to understand gene expression, and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to …

… Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. They also searched IMG/M …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia … in flowering plants, or angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … rot fungi in the genus Lentinula. Dan Rokhsar looked to the evolutionary history of strawberries as part of a study to …