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Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich … endoparasites of some common crops, such as lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause much damage to the hosts, … (e.g., Lettuce big-vein associated virus LBVaV; genus Varicosavirus ) which may severely reduce crop yields. Like the …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and … to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has … hosts that users can select to be engineered. “Piloting access to this emerging technology with JGI users will enable …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the … Speakers Katrine Whiteson , UC Irvine Chase Morgan , UC San Diego Britt Koskella , UC Berkeley Other Confirmed … Stedman, Portland State University Luke Hillary, UC Davis Samuel Díaz-Muñoz, UC Davis Adrienne Correa, UC Berkeley …

… harnessing algae for bioenergy and the greater bioeconomy. By bringing together publicly available genomic data on … Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]. S.C., B.K., and I.V.G. were supported in part … Energy under Agreements NL0032266. Funding for open access charge: DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]. … Algal Genomes on …

… harnessing algae for bioenergy and the greater bioeconomy. By bringing together publicly available genomic data on … to sequence and understand. A team of researchers led by Algal Genomics Program lead Igor Grigoriev and data … of more than 100 sequenced algal genomes — many sequenced by the JGI — so researchers can easily explore the …

… these gaps of knowledge. In a study published November 11, 2022, in Cell Genomics , the team focused on Actinobacteria … to define the current shape of the microbial tree of life by filling in genomic information for thousands of branches,” said Natalia Ivanova, senior author of …

… more about their work here in a series of videos produced by JGI Communications & Outreach intern Ashleigh Papp. The … summer. The JGI-UC Merced internship program was founded in 2014 with the goal of inspiring students to embark on a … Wu Click the image to watch the video … Intern: Jacob Espinosa (undergraduate) Mentor: Virginia Scarlett Click the image …

Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes and transcriptomes could … this symbiosis going back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps via horizontal gene transfer would have …

… scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads … genetic diversity.  In 2021, he was among those selected by the DOE Office of Science as part of the Early Career …

… to convert them into energy that is then stored. A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for … Erb, director of the MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, successfully combined synthetic biology and microfluidics to … open year-round, and reviews submissions twice a year. Proposals submitted by July 30, 2020 will be considered in the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … scientists to study microorganisms that can’t be cultured by analyzing and then extrapolating data obtained from …

… over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the absence of all the other letters of the … sequencing or DAP-seq. The technology was developed by Ronan O’Malley , who leads the Sequencing Technologies Group. In an article published November 25, 2021 in Nature Methods , JGI researchers led by co-first …