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… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On August 6, 2021,  version 12 of Phytozome will be retired, and  version 13 will become the current, and only, version of Phytozome accessible as an interactive website. Since May …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns … the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant …

… Over the last few months, we found an increasing number of colleagues missing elements of the required PPE in the lab. To address this issue, we … to provide our colleagues with a visual representation of JGI PPE requirements. When working in the lab, it is … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to … Intern: Frank Gutierrez (graduate) Mentor: Simon Roux Click the image to …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key … aquatic environments. The Impact A deeper understanding of how plants adapted to terrestrial life paves the way for …

… A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has discovered that the …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program …

… just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS … Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: … on the proposal call page. Feel free to  reach out to any of them with questions. Q:  Apart from instrumental support, …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break … which degrade plant detritus. Despite the different modes of nutrition, many of these soil fungi have independently …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the genus Lentinula, …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit these sites, as well as the …

… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. … The rhizosphere is the area surrounding the roots of a plant in the soil. And I’m specifically working with a …