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… of scientific policy, engaging in interactions with the scientific community at large. … discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes from cow rumen . Science 331, 463-7. Visel A , Zhu Y, May D, Afzal V, …

… the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which … set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific time or under specific … inconsistency makes interpretation and integration across studies difficult. Our Plant Gene Atlas resource addresses …

… the JGI and KBase in the heart of the Lab’s 200-acre campus—with the big move from leased space in Walnut Creek, Calif. scheduled to begin a month later. In parallel with the intricate move preparations, the JGI has released … JGI supports, include JGI’s emerging leadership role in a Microbiome Data Science effort (pages 37-39) and the …

… mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. … of California (UC), Berkeley, which is also affiliated with the Innovative Genomics Institute. The Impact The … study senior author Jennifer Doudna’s lab, and he worked with co-first author David Burstein, then a postdoctoral …

… stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps … researchers can develop high-throughput and high-resolution studies of interactions between host cells and viruses in …

… a decade, researchers around the world have collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … on Actinobacteria ( Actinomycetota ), a group of bacteria with diverse metabolic activities. Found in marine and … Ivanova, senior author of the study and head of the JGI’s Microbiome Annotation Group. Many of these bacterial and …

… independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that … species include 29 newly-sequenced mycorrhizal genomes. With so many fungal  genomes , the team conducted a … assist researchers in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host …

… grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it can … allowed the research team to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. Switchgrass has a large polyploid … climate resilient switchgrass. Aside from climate-related studies, researchers have also harnessed the switchgrass …

… in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. … sediment like a leaf.” The lab conducted some microscopy studies over the next couple of years, and realized it was a … bacterium was doing in the mangroves. “Mangroves and their microbiomes are important ecosystems for carbon cycling . If …

… plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three … line is simply not true based on previous pan-genome studies. Thus, we must compare multiple polyploid genomes to …

… coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced … patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and … intimidating. That first exposure from great interactions with Dr. Ben Cole and Dr. Axel Visel led to being co-advised …

… the areas of single-cell microbial genomics and giant virus studies has been groundbreaking. The JGI is most fortunate … the boundaries of energy and environmental genomics.” Along with Woyke, two JGI users were also elected to the AAM: … (VEGA) Symposium which is being held in conjunction with the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s 15th Annual Genomics …