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… Committee (UEC) recently welcomed three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest … the Ecological Society of America. He’s interested in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and … base, including both university and national laboratory researchers. This will help the JGI shape its programs, …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way … back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden … Australia but is increasingly farmed in other countries for essential oil production. The recent assembly of two … Corymbia citriodora subspecies variegata genomes allowed researchers to study the conservation and evolution of the …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new genetic mapping strategy … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and … mycobiont. However, despite a century-and-a-half of lichen research, many of the symbiosis’ details remain unclear. For … Asterochloris glomerata . To see how gene expression changes when living together versus apart, the team grew the …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … was among the Lab’s 2015 Women @ the Lab honorees. Woyke’s research focuses on developing and harnessing single-cell … methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms … optimization for enhanced lipid production. Also notable, researchers found it is missing 33 genes thought essential … genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial manufacturing.  …