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Ray Turner Completes Last Tour of Lab Duty at JGI
… as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and … squirrel infestations while working to accommodate major changes in the technology implementation. As the JGI’s …
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JGI@25: Expanding Metagenomics to Capture Viral Diversity
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 … key aspect of viruses in the environment — their sheer genetic diversity. As pioneers of this field, the JGI has …
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Bayesian Analysis of Congruence of Core Genes in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus and Implications on Horizontal Gene Transfer
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Introducing New Members of the JGI User Executive Committee
JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced … JGI research priorities.” U’Ren, who studies ecological and evolutionary factors shaping the assembly of fungal …
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Rex Malmstrom
Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these …
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What Happens Underground Influences Global Nutrient Cycles
… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the  … with soil properties that co-vary with depth and with changes in warming and other environmental conditions. Among …
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Desert truffle genomes reveal their reproductive modes and new insights into plant–fungal interaction and ectendomycorrhizal lifestyle
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Uncovering the Core Microbiome and Distribution of Palmerolide in Synoicum adareanum Across the Anvers Island Archipelago, Antarctica
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Contrasting Modes of Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Sister Taxa of Wood-Eating Marine Bivalves (Teredinidae and Xylophagaidae)
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JGI Launches Latest Strategic Plan
For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …
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NeLLi — Symposium on New Lineages of Life
… 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of … to a new appreciation for the extent of diversity. The phylogenetic and functional characterization of this novel …
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Pinning Down a Piece of Photosynthesis
By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … genes would allow the team to express this library of encoded proteins at high throughput. “The JGI synthesis …
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