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… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the …

The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for the first time, that this group is unexpectedly powerful: they can … fungal natural products, O’Malley and her team plan to use genetic tools to boost production and isolate the compounds. …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … impact the planet’s nutrient cycles. While most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering … to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … wastewater, and even animal and human (for the first time) gut and taxonomically classified into 27 distinct …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI … isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation … uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope probing …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even … microalga: the diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus . At that time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more …

The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the … to a new appreciation for the extent of diversity. The phylogenetic and functional characterization of this novel …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material directly from samples sidesteps these … million viral genomes, and  this most recent version is six times larger than the previous one . To identify so many …