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Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant … have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for …

… biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … ability of these enzymes to break down these recalcitrant carbohydrates into more versatile molecules that can be then …

… new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing …

… expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of … features. Several characters may be spotted with a striped scarf, striped hat, round-rimmed glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described …

Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for … Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, …

… single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using a single-cell screen, … program (LDRD) entitled ‘Tackling microbial-mediated plant carbon decomposition using “function-driven” genomics’. …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops … tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at …

… high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility … Office of Science user facility, aims to explore applications in the life sciences that can be ported to the GPU architecture. A GPU hackathon is a five-day coding event that offers participating …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one … transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that …

… interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their growth program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light …