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Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes … bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found that pollen’s pectin and … it might make sense that honey bees have a more efficient microbiome to harvest all the energy they can. The results …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on … 10, 2743-2769. 2015 Blaby et. al., The Chlamydomonas genome project: a decade on. Trends in plant science . 19: 10, …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … Change’ (SPP 2237), and grant 410739858 in the frame of the project CharMod to K.v.S., as well as RE 1697/16-1 (CharMod) … work was further supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project 10.55776/P34181 to A.H. The work (proposal: …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary … 0002 01 to F. Martin), JGI Community sequencing program project (CSP570, DE-AC02-05CH11231), and National Science …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products … 20: 721 Nayfach et al. 2021. A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology 39, 499-509. Schulz et al. …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among … an estimated 40 to 80 percent of all the microbial cells on Earth. As microbial predators, viruses are able to determine …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements … also carries out custom preparative work for difficult user projects, including those that require fluorescence … in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Microbiome 199 Needham, D.M. et al. 2019. A distinct lineage …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the … information. According to Lawrence, this summer project aligned with his computational background and …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, … the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was also provided by the …

… – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. … efforts with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind. Microbiome ecologist Shade became Director of Research at …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write … (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State …