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… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … of researchers have found that there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more … sequences assembled as part of its 1000 Fungal Genomes Project . To map microbial activity, Baldrian’s team …
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… for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial … mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and contribute to global biogeochemical cycles. Additional … Deputy Director of JGI’s User Programs. “Many of these projects are large in scale and involve multiple …
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… Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied …
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… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. … source. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every …
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… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as … . The meeting was a hybrid event, with guests joining onsite at the Integrative Genomics Building at Lawrence … to know at the beginning of my career, with my postdoctoral project beginning with her strains,” Wessler explained. “She …
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… San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, he directs a multidisciplinary team responsible for piloting and operationalizing new genomic … which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. His team is …
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… attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting. A wide array of invited speakers shared how … and new technology developments – has advanced their work on the world’s most pressing energy and environment … that the JGI has put together. In collaboration on a project with the Newman lab, an important question arose: …
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… recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the … fellow in the Juenger lab and continues to work on the project from a lab at Michigan State University that is …
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… became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics … rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples in support of user science. Capabilities …
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… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant … also carries out custom preparative work for difficult user projects, including those that require fluorescence …
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