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… The JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and … feedback and make recommendations on how the JGI Science Programs can best support the user community. Advise the JGI …

… The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re … who have uncovered remarkable genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and materials. …

… of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… Agency declared the North Railroad Avenue Plume (NRAP) a Superfund site. The chemical PCE (perchloroethylene) found … Dehalococcoides mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical … biodegrading PCE.  Through the JGI’s  Community Science Program , they were able to analyze the resulting …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … information as well as of important descriptive metadata about each strain. “This has been a very fruitful …

… data policies. Since completion of the HGP, the JGI has sustained its commitment to uploading sequence data generated on behalf of its user community to NCBI as well as to the  data portals that … at the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research program. Following these discussions, the JGI will …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable … The work was partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. … (Berkeley Lab), through the JGI Community Science Program . The metagenomes were also processed using the …

… in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of … these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his … Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and before …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which … and more. And eventually, their findings could help us grow better crops, with less impact on our planet. …

… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … genes from isolates, there isn’t much scientists can tell about its function or its origin. As a result, these genes … The study took roughly two years to complete, with only about 20,000 metagenomes sequenced at the time. Now, that …