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… targeting transforms oil-producing alga into a powerful platform for developing bio-based industrial products. … the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise gene targeting in the genome in the November … allodiploid hybrid of two species, similar to a mule, but that is still able to reproduce asexually through mitosis. The …
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… holds the key to discovering new antiviral medicines and treatments for infectious disease. Streptomycetes are also … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, as well as a member of its Secondary …
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… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly … specific procedure.” The rapport they built during this project and others (including the dissertation that preceded …
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… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their … ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and … crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …
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… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and research scientist Frederik Schulz in …
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… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with …
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… Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between … environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in … interest. Matt also supports various CSP and FICUS user projects for the Metagenome Program. …
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… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of … and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science … at the Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility was conducted to understand how the … genome (Rm ATCC 52813) as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes project. As reported in the November 29, 2017 issue of …
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… Neha’s key role is to design, benchmark, and apply bioinformatics software to enable analysis and interpretation of genomic and metagenomic data for JGI’s user community. She also provides support for user science and projects through implementation of advanced analysis …
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