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For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science … of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of …

… in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant … of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and …

… is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his backyard in … from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC … in collaboration with researchers from ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, …

Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity … the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter … threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin vermicelli-like threads floating delicately above the leaf debris …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.       … Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using …

… a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions. The … algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into …

… studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was … In addition, Dr. Cole is focusing on how individual plant cells respond to their biotic environment using emerging single-cell …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial … exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been …

Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three … project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team has continued to develop computational methods applicable to the diverse …