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… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of … in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several of the students including … illness, disease risk, and treatment response due to fungal genomics internship with Igor Grigoriev. Portia Mira …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … researcher Sara Calhoun, data scientist Stephen Mondo, and  Fungal and Algal program lead Igor Grigoriev took readers on … romp through the  evolution and domestication of yeast , a model eukaryote. The wide array of topics comes from the …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against … in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that … called terpenoids, which have a structure belonging to a group of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific … biogeochemical cycles remains unexplored and uncultivated. Developing a more targeted genomic approach would allow … multiple techniques and was demonstrated using a specific group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in …

… Nandita is involved in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA input …

… Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she …

… JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH … nutrient cycles can help researchers contribute toward developing the bioeconomy. Now, JGI researchers are lending … viral genomes. This includes (i) classifying viruses into groups that can be compared across studies, (ii) predicting …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … researchers under the direction of Microbiome Data Science Group Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy … with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of the  IMG Plasmid Resource …

… Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … Roux, a member of Eloe-Fadrosh’s Environmental Genomics group, makes a pitch for readers to get involved in the developing field of virus ecogenomics. While microbes … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first … consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant bacterial group in the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at … Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Biochemistry, University of Delaware BA in …