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Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … and characterizing the planet’s microbial diversity is key to understanding the roles of microorganisms in …

Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The students’ research … their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial …

… design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at Brookhaven … National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle … team thinks that the piggybacking strategy makes sense in a terrestrial environment with low mobility. The metagenomic …

Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, … when and how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature … figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean occurring …

JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  … is interested in understanding which species of mycorrhizal fungi are important for poplar plant health, in part to …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Due to the ongoing pandemic, Woyke will receive the prize at a …

… best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … of switchgrass across the garden sites depended on the origin or collection location of the individual switchgrass …

… hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … and renewable chemicals, developing genome engineering tools for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe …

… involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed … improvement. Nature Genetics 52: 525-533. Lovell, JT et al. 2018. The genomic landscape of molecular responses to …