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… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and … are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of … JGI supports, include JGI’s emerging leadership role in a Microbiome Data Science effort (pages 37-39) and the …

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: …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which … specific procedure.” The rapport they built during this project and others (including the dissertation that preceded …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, … Lead Tanja Woyke , Microbial Program Gitta Szabo , User Project Coordination Rekha Seshadri, Functional Annotation …

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. …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, … to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team … to access the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. For example, the team has since …

… 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 …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … at a high level as JGI transitioned from the Human Genome Project to gaining momentum as a national user facility. He …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … new ones. The Impact In the past, natural products have been an important source of antibiotics. Indeed, these … clearly have unexpected chemical potential. … This research project was supported by a grant from Santa Barbara Cottage …