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… is found in nearly all types of bacteria and interacts with cell signaling networks that control many basic … cyclic di-GMP in bacteria through work enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) . The Impact Cyclic … all plants, many bacterial cultures, and environmental samples auto-fluoresce, making fluorescent biosensors …
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… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal … found inside mitochondria, the energy-producing structures within cells. This is the largest dataset of its kind ever … genome assemblies in the National Center for Biotechnology Information's GenBank. This led to identifying 6,467 of …
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… hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop …
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… some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence in … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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… researchers investigated the role that bacteria living within a host (endosymbionts) have on fungal host … was predicted to have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . … and experimented with the fungi and bacteria, while the DOE JGI team sequenced and annotated a host genome (Rm ATCC …
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… has been leading the Systems Infrastructure Team at the JGI since 2020. Before joining the JGI, he has been working … on the boundary of life science and computational science with notable stops at NERSC, IMBA (Institute of Molecular … building productive infrastructure in close collaboration with the local scientists. As the lead of the infrastructure …
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… to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made …
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… Corymbia are more abundant in the drier parts of Australia with lower quality soils and even in the desert areas with … proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to … mRNA from different tissues of C. citriodora . From these samples, a total of 127 TPS loci were found, many of which …
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… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a … be engineered. “Piloting access to this emerging technology with JGI users will enable us to assess CRAGE’s impact, … first used CRAGE to engineer domesticated bacterial strains with novel biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). BGCs make …
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… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for … over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the Eukaryotic Genome Program (2010-2019), and JGI Chief Informatics Officer (2013-2016). Dr. Rokhsar …
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… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … the boundaries of energy and environmental genomics.” Along with Woyke, two JGI users were also elected to the AAM: … (VEGA) Symposium which is being held in conjunction with the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s 15th Annual Genomics …
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… Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how … noted, specific genes of interest could be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants …
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