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… and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes … meant most genes in sorghum occurred roughly in the same order in sugarcane. To create this reference sequence, the … The JGI sequenced half of the 4,500 BACs sequenced for this project that were colinear to the gene-rich part of sorghum …

… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade … was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed Margulisbacteria, and had found they were …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … partnership had become a “model” of sorts at the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to contribute towards a diverse workforce and scientific community (working …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … recently deployed CRAGE to rapidly label  E. coli  in order to monitor population dynamics in co-culture. These … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

… genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and … or 44% of expressed genes respond to drought stress regardless of whether drought was applied before or after the …

… The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions … New Investigator and  Functional Genomics proposal calls, projects can request up to 50 polar and 150 nonpolar … the metabolomics and transcriptomic data? A:  We use MAGI. Reference: Erbiligin et al.  MAGI: A Method for …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 Annual Meeting . The … by CRISPR-Cas9; the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Assaf Vardi, who delved into algae blooms and the alga-viral … to know at the beginning of my career, with my postdoctoral project beginning with her strains,” Wessler explained. “She …

… From August 21-23, 2023, attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment … applications of their genomics and multi-omics work. Recordings and recaps of all three keynote talks follow, … that the JGI has put together. In collaboration on a project with the Newman lab, an important question arose: …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the size of what has typically been … that despite the number of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from this effort, the team was still …

… 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 hitchhikers. These organisms … This research was supported in part by the Allen Distinguished Investigator Program, …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale … active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly …