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… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from … relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every … award 0000238431 to D.H., the GENOBIOREF (BIO2017-86559-R) project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation …

… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the … information. According to Lawrence, this summer project aligned with his computational background and …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work in the Hallam Lab was performed …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically … mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. … It also underscores the untapped potential waiting to be unearthed in sequencing and analyzing uncultivated microbes. …

… Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, … the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was also provided by the …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories around the … research offshoots in totally different areas, beyond the project’s initial scope. Sequencing and culturing this vast …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program has been instrumental in establishing larger-scale research projects in our group. It’s enabled us to accelerate gene, …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write … (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State …

… To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …

… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  … For example, with support from the  Exascale Computing Project , the JGI — along with the National Energy Research … They may also provide a basic understanding of the roles microbiomes play in determining the behavior of the physical …

… students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by … one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or … in some cases daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote work. …