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Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science Researchers … health and diversity, which can in turn boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. …

On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this … Ray and it has been especially called on in the move to the new building where that was really critical. It takes a … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …

The IAC is chartered by the JGI Chief Informatics Officer (CIO) and reports to the JGI Director. The IAC is chartered to render … and information technology (IT) activities and strategic plan. The IAC serves as the key external advisory panel for …

The Prokaryote Advisory Committee is chartered to offer advice, … and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs and report back to them. The Committee is chartered … scientific relevance and quality. The Committee does not perform management functions nor does it direct the Programs’ …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user facility at Berkeley Lab. … affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also affect ecosystems by killing …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions … over 80% of land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how plant materials can be broken down for … This automation lets researchers study more samples and provides better resolution by splitting the DNA into more …

Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial … mediate Sphagnum peatmoss resilience to warming . New Phytol. 2022 Jun;234(6):2111-2125. doi: …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from … said Susannah Tringe, JGI User Programs Deputy. “These new CSP projects accelerate our efforts to characterize … cycles. Thus, having reference  Chaetoceros genomes would provide more information on these ecologically relevant …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is … also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … challenges.   Mission  The mission of the JGI is to provide the global research community with access to the …