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… The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light on hidden components, … commonly found carbon biopolymers in nature, second only to cellulose.  Chitin is also a common food source for microbes …

… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of … protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products … deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using metagenomics. Taking on a Research Scientist position in 2007, … is the Microbial Science Program Head as well as our Deputy of User Programs. Click to learn more about the program's …

… Twice each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … the fungus and alga, either separately or together, on nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also … in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To explore the genomes, Armaleo and colleagues …

… Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program … is Mo Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s … JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group. Tringe’s research group focuses on the roles …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … across southern Florida, they encompass a wide range of ecosystems ranging from wetlands to tree islands to cattails. …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get … decomposers that can break down all of wood’s components — cellulose, hemicellulose, and the toughest molecule, lignin. … 1456588 to D.H. and DEB-1442113 to A.R., the Department of Energy award 0000238431 to D.H., the GENOBIOREF …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … their expertise in developing and managing public viral genomics resources such as analytical tools and data …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in  Nature …

… his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … “This makes it one of the most efficient carbon-sucking ecosystems on the planet,” Lawrence said. For Lawrence, this … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …

… Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates …