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… plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three … line is simply not true based on previous pan-genome studies. Thus, we must compare multiple polyploid genomes to …

… coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced … patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and … intimidating. That first exposure from great interactions with Dr. Ben Cole and Dr. Axel Visel led to being co-advised …

… the areas of single-cell microbial genomics and giant virus studies has been groundbreaking. The JGI is most fortunate … the boundaries of energy and environmental genomics.” Along with Woyke, two JGI users were also elected to the AAM: … (VEGA) Symposium which is being held in conjunction with the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s 15th Annual Genomics …

… in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. … sediment like a leaf.” The lab conducted some microscopy studies over the next couple of years, and realized it was a … bacterium was doing in the mangroves. “Mangroves and their microbiomes are important ecosystems for carbon cycling . If …

… — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose … Grigoriev, Fungal Genomics Program Head at the JGI.  Along with an improved understanding of multiple forest systems, … different soil communities for taxonomic diversity. These studies could pinpoint populations, but they said little …

… a decade, researchers around the world have collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … on Actinobacteria ( Actinomycetota ), a group of bacteria with diverse metabolic activities. Found in marine and … Ivanova, senior author of the study and head of the JGI’s Microbiome Annotation Group. Many of these bacterial and …

… pin down.  Photosynthesis appears to have a lot in common with a Rube Goldberg machine: surprising dependencies, … on this structure, Grosjean and Blaby-Haas collaborated with a range of researchers across the Albert Einstein … has some amazing resources and people — not just the instrumentation — but the experts we were able to work with on …

… inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial … strategy of lysogeny. The ability of the virus to tag along with the host has earned this strategy a riff, developed by … suggest viruses are indeed piggybacking their hosts. Though studies in marine environments have detected viruses …

… design and synthesis superpower. Through a series of case studies, JGI scientific users share how they’ve worked with the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program, which started in … “The JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program has been instrumental in establishing larger-scale research projects in …

… approaches to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the … host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem. Microbiome 11, 237 Roux et al., 2023. iPHoP: An integrated … cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions. The ISME Journal …

… in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale Applications … and enable processing of samples that would not be possible with traditional approaches. … Ph.D. in Marine … in the hyphosphere of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Microbiome 199 Needham, D.M. et al. 2019. A distinct lineage …

… of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with the humans and the biosphere), including the global … genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In the  Proceedings of the National Academy … Rick Cavicchioli at the University of New South Wales along with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) …