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High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant
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Multi 'omics comparison reveals metabolome biochemistry, not microbiome composition or gene expression, corresponds to elevated biogeochemical function in the hyporheic zone
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Coral life history and symbiosis: Functional genomic resources for two reef building Caribbean corals, Acropora palmata and Montastraea faveolata
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Forming Scientific Connections and Building Community
The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … Zhong Wang Project: “ Improving biosynthetic gene cluster annotation by leveraging a large genomic model ” Leonel … Salamov Project: “ Improving the JGI fungal mitochondrial annotation pipeline ” Anna Kucherova : “I got to learn about …
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JGI Early Career Researchers Featured in mSystems Special Issue
In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation … incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third …
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From Textbook to Real World Applications
When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning … synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor …
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Introducing New Members of the JGI User Executive Committee
JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced … of Energy & Meeting. Any investigator who has been an active user of the JGI at any time in the past two fiscal …
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Training the Next Generation of Talent
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 … both Meza and DOE JGI Director Eddy Rubin. “QSB faculty are active DOE JGI Community Science Program collaborators, and …
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JGI User Executive Committee Expands
… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … of the JGI Annual Meeting. Any investigator who has been an active user of the JGI at any time in the past two fiscal …
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Olpidium, The Key to the Origin of Terrestrial Fungi
Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … and analysis of their data at the time. Following the publication of their paper in 2011, Dr. Sekimoto from …
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New Vision, New Mission, New Plan: The JGI’s Next Five Years
… for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national … solutions for bioproducts to support the bioeconomy. Functional diversity theme. Reading the genomes of …
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From Stress to Growth: The adaptive mechanisms of algae in changing Arctic waters
… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to … to analyze gene expression, to determine which genes are active under different conditions. This was facilitated in …
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