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… … DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural … the future. I highly recommend it. I’ll link to it in the show notes. Which I’ll remind you, you can always find at … a marine actinomycete bacterium. So they look kind of like fungi but also make these mycelia. They kind of look like …

… published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that … also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … need to test it. Some testing might be hard, depending on how you’re doing the testing. If you have a successful test, … been shared for a long time by many, many bacteria – and fungi and plants. And so that’s the power and the promise …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, … for self-defense. But the compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform …

… at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced in every corn variety and … have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza … the bioenergy crop switchgrass. The team confirmed just how important zealexins are to maize health. Infections with …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative … link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 … fungi by James et al. and Sekimoto et al . In both studies, however, Olpidium was unexpectedly grouped with …

Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the CSP  New Investigator call for … team will have expertise in this area, or can demonstrate how competencies can be built. We recommend exploring how KBase (www.kbase.us) can support biological data …

Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh … with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

Appendix identifies the type of work or specific proposal to be covered under the Agreement. The signing official must have the legal authority to commit your institution or organization to the terms and … will replace the active version. For researchers with a Howard Hughes Medical Institution (HHMI) appointment, a …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon … research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …