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… Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have … on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses. The … viruses. Isolating and co-cultivating these viruses has enabled findings on host range, morphological structures, …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … and coordinates the development of the virus and plasmid workflows for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative.  … that support open data practices, development of standards and processes for data quality and sharing, and …

… Pictured from left: [Above] Hanin Alzubaidy, Markus Covert, Sheel C. Dodani, … year, the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from … rare earth elements and other high-value resources. Enabled by the capabilities and expertise within the JGI, …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in … environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added … Alper said. “We’re exploring not just what can be enabled by this technology, but also what we can understand …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … — scientists can better fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and … of plants have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, …

… A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to … The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … sex chromosomes. The results were published in  Genome Biology . The team found that the shrub willow’s W … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple … to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently … genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 mycorrhizal species include 29 …