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New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging partnerships to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for the global research community. The …
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Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI … internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from … graduate student Mentors: Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, Fungal and Algal Program What effect has your summer …
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Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 … and algae’s roles in nutrient cycling, now a facet of the Fungal & Algal Program . For example, green algae represent … to crowdsource antimicrobial discovery for the control of plant pathogens, partnering with 600 instructors worldwide …
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Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a … to include in vitro protein-based techniques, algae, and plants, while focusing on understanding the evolution and …
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A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious …
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Learn more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with interactive web-based tools for comparative genomics and …
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This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in … University of Arizona: “Spatial metabolic profiling in roots reveals plant specific responses to drought at the Biosphere 2 …
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Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary … and viral BGC sequences. Expansion of the SMC to include fungal, plant, viral, and metagenome data is currently underway. … …
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A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment … program (LDRD) entitled ‘Tackling microbial-mediated plant carbon decomposition using “function-driven” genomics’. …
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… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … Following this, several internship program committee members including JGI Deputy of Science Programs and … After working on his post-doctoral position with the Plant and Microbe Interaction group at Oak Ridge National …
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… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of … fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii …
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For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of …
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