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As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through early introduction to the resources and disciplines advanced by …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to … Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … redistributing water availability. By sequencing the millet rhizosphere and endosphere communities both with and without …

… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of … genomic biodiversity. Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, their …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … how microbial and bacteria communities influence the carbon-sequestering abilities of peat moss. Peat is found in the … would best serve their quests related to processing RNA-sequencing information. According to Lawrence, this summer …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of the first … or other biological activity of the surrounding neighborhood,” said Benjamin Cole, senior author of this work. Cole …

In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer internship experiences have influenced their careers in science. Hear more about what …

Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current …

… yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their … as well as the soil surrounding their roots (known as the rhizosphere), researchers hope this massive and integrated … value as both biofuel feedstock and their role in carbon sequestration. Poplar trees grow quickly in a variety of …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … For lichen, the partnership is more commonplace — though perhaps no less dramatic. In lichen, the photosynthetic … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base … in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes in protein structures and … specific 5mC methyltransferase (MTase) variants. Using new sequencing technologies for producing both reference genomes …

… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers … Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered …

… (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are …