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Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for … “Spatial metabolic profiling in roots reveals plant specific responses to drought at the Biosphere 2 tropical …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . … in plant cell walls, it enabled researchers to identify specific bond-breakages related to lignin modification …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … approach: CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … methanogens were, but they were discovered by genome sequencing, which is a much less biased approach to studying … two enzymes.” These microbes are specialized to use very specific types of substrates for methanogenesis, and cannot …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … potential ," is among the five focused on tool development. Specifically, the goal of this work is to develop tools, … collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …

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 … our near- and long-term goals. And, by the way, as far as sequencing goes, the JGI’s next petabase will likely be …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to … plant genomics.      Nucleic Acids Research 40, D1178. Publications … Scientific Advisory Board member, InterMine (www.intermine.org) … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …