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… down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … plant fibers. But are they both actually doing the job? By analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic … and metatranscriptome sequences, as well as individual reference fungal genome sequences assembled as part of its …

… -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his graduate student … about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field … initiative called Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) . Through FICUS, the researchers …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and … addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied and Environmental …

… students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s … Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. This year, however, there was a new aspect to …

… in 29 U.S. states and 35 countries. (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) … a 2012 Community Science Program proposal. Joseph Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes for all fungi families — essentially, the …

… A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was … approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to …

… of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta … , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… a photosynthetic microalgae, and a little-characterized microbiome. When warm waters stress corals, it might be …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna … of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They also took part in many enriching workshops …

… Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … was a group lead at Stanford Human Genome Center directed by Richard Myers, and among the Center staff that moved to … to include: A 2021 Nature paper announcing a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using …

… experiences and what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed below are the interns, … research is very sentimental to me.” Mentors: Crysten Blaby-Haas & Bikash Shrestha Project: “ Detecting Isotope Bonds … of Brachypodium distachyon root transporters in plant-microbiome interactions ” Cory-James Pugne-Andenoro : “The …