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… The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. …

… Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and … Yao. ] ] The JGI welcomed 14 scientists selected for our 2026 Community Science Program Large Scale call. This … efforts including systems-based approaches to unravel functional capabilities of plants, microbes and microbial …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … feedback on pangenome tool development. Maurice is a fungal evolutionary ecologist with interests in understanding which …

…   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid … This work was supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Biological and …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on … short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … to experimental characterization and validation of the functional potential of these new lineages. …

… In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … to gain hands-on experience in molecular biology and plant functional genomics, because this work is essential for …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … Wilbanks has served on review panels for the JGI’s Functional Genomics CSP and the JGI-EMSL FICUS programs and … Greenham stepped down at the end of her term. In late 2023, the JGI launched a solicitation for nominations for …

… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … from their studied system results in seeing their predicted functional and metabolic roles across global metagenomes … activity in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse environments and grouped …

… DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of … I’ll take that knowledge back with me.” Now a second-year evolutionary biology student in David Ardell’s lab, he also …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any …

… symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … to that of a free-living organism. First discovered in 2011, Nanohaloarchaea are part of the DPANN (Diapherotrites, …