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… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of faculty and researchers describe a workforce development program for higher education that develops … National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network for Undergraduate Biology Education (Award # 2418285) and …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research …

… JGI! They are among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for demonstrating “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor Grigoriev Natalia …

… For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses are also able to …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … with the photobiont transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a … FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic Sciences and Policy (for DNA sequencing and assembly); by a three-year …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … bean. Though the JGI no longer works on food crops specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on … are equipped to do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community composition and …

… works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … are generated through Community Science Program funding calls. JGI has research funding grants aimed specifically at …

… poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and the University of California, Santa Barbara and a gift from the Gordon and Betty …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … of small DNA fragments into larger and coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his … as a computational biologist. My primary future goal is to form a startup.” …