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The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … better understand arsenic mobility and to better understand their roles in the global sulfur cycle. Copies are available …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … evolution and rapid changes in both genome content and structure following a genome duplication event that occured … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … zinc-binding proteins are important for primary metabolism such as photosynthesis and gene regulation.  Mock and his …

… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … bacterium, along with its life cycle. For most bacteria, their DNA floats freely within the cytoplasm of their cells. … the whole cell are actually contained within a structure that has a membrane,” Volland said. “And this is very …

… in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their … genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new … for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. Additionally, these fungi play a role in the global  …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is often reduced compared to that of a free-living organism. First … extremophilic archaea first outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While most DPANN lineages are …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In their analysis, they found the salinity changes led the …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new … most powerful light microscope, and fickle, often hiding their function from even the most determined scientist.  …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks …

… metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a … But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a … virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact …