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… strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging partnerships to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for the global research … the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national efforts to promote and stimulate a bioeconomy, where …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the … the past three decades, their study assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a … is still unknown.  “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their …

Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist …

… metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell genomics by collecting … cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with …

User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced “you-wren”) of the University of Arizona! They join … representing a breadth of institutions, research topics and career stages. The election period concluded on December 23, …

… array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers … nitrogen metabolism, as well as those that play a role in carbon cycling. However, the high degree of variability in …

DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on … this fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. Ti’Yanna Watson: My mentor …

… marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of … ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern … in the ocean drive the biological pump that takes carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major … team led by McDaniel and his former graduate student Sarah Carey, now at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their … their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies …

… at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … researcher Joseph Napier from the Juenger lab and computational biologist Paul Grabowski of HudsonAlpha outline the …