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… over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the Eukaryotic Genome Program (2010-2019), and JGI Chief Informatics Officer (2013-2016). Dr. … and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s research is focused on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity …

… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published … Science Program. For most months each year, Ace Lake is covered in thick ice, with a combination of marine and …

… in hot springs. Hear how their recent work revealed more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass … team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … to address long-standing evolutionary ecological hypotheses about how C4 perennial grasses like switchgrass respond to …

La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and …

… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … regulatory network in bacteria, enabling the discovery of regulatory cascades as well as crosstalk between …

… highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … by FEDER funds) to F.J.R.-D., S.C., and A.T.M., grant PID2019-103901GB-I00 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and …

We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. …

The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a … the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at …

… an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and enthusiasts to look deep into more than 100 algal genomes, … genetic underpinnings responsible for these traits takes us closer to harnessing algae for bioenergy and the greater … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples … and removal of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from the U.S. …