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… are solicited annually for the summer term (May through August) and selected projects will receive stipend and travel …
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… team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome using samples collected at these gardens. Building off this …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of Brachypodium hybridum are … de Zaragoza, one of the paper’s senior authors. “It offers us the possibility to explore genomically the whole complex …
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… To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a …
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… popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to predict the metabolic strategies applied by a common … a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of …
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… the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and others like it, are uncovering the true …
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Nikos Kyrpides Dan Rokhsar Simon Roux Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of … with switchgrass biology. The information could be useful toward the DOE’s interest in harnessing the crop … (Watch SCGSR fellows Nick Reichart and Ian Rambo talk about their experiences at the JGI.) Igor Grigoriev hosted …
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… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences. A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to finding a …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus . At that time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than …
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Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user facility at Berkeley lab. She earned her PhD in … of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in … analysis of two extremophilic algae reveals iron economy management. PNAS 120(30):e2305495120. Pasquini M, Grosjean …
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… highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often … relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … mining, empowering research collaborators to take on ambitious synthetic biology experiments. A recent special issue of … Through a series of case studies, JGI scientific users share how they’ve worked with the JGI DNA Synthesis …
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