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… site. The chemical PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from … the city of Española, the Santa Clara Pueblo and its nearby rural populations rely heavily on groundwater as …
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Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny …
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Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee … (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They … National Laboratory, Rebecca Smith of the University of Wisconsin, Maggie Sogin of the University of California, …
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… secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired …
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… of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do … tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses can affect their prey in different ways. They have the capacity to kill outright, replicating …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Sorghum …
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UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer internship experiences have influenced their careers in science. Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, what … and mentor Robert M. Bowers Nathaniel Brown and mentor Frederik Schulz Daravuth Cheam and mentors Clement Coclet …
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… have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range. But at what cost? A collaborative team led by researchers at the … has discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range, but at …
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A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are … Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program, Lawrence is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Oak Ridge …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that … concerns about the pathogen to an all-time high. California homeowners witnessed how their once stout oaks, the anchors … techniques were also instrumental in tracing the genetic signature of the organism back to commercial nursery plants in …
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… plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which … network analysis, and ortholog function descriptions from nearest phylogenetic neighbors. Our pipeline allowed us to …
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Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, which encodes a single protein. Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene …
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