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… 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped by dam removal to Antarctica’s photosynthetic mats — to … to global biogeochemical cycles. Additional efforts in metabolic engineering and biocatalyst design will target …
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Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related … in particular, as a model system for venom-microbe interactions. Cone snail venom has a number of applications, … Dr. Ben Cole and Dr. Axel Visel led to being co-advised by Dr. Tanja Woyke and additionally mentored by members of …
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… and implementation of scientific policy, engaging in interactions with the scientific community at large. … 2021 … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, … LA, Visel A (2013). Fine tuning of craniofacial morphology by distant-acting enhancers. Science 342, 1241006. Visel A …
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In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome … in human and mouse triglyceride metabolism. He is funded by DOE and through continued competitive grant support from … technical JGI directions for DOE User science. … Complete Publications Genomic Technologies Program Defining the vast …
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… proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been approved … Brassicales Genome Initiative. Brassicales is represented by more than 4,700 species, and the proposal focuses on … learning how environmental conditions influence viral-host interactions in three groups: cyanophages, bacteriophages, …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … in 29 U.S. states and 35 countries. (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) … genomes that are both large and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG initiative — …
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High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … The process involves “labeling” a given substance by applying a stable isotope to it. The isotopes are …
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Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … , JGI’s deputy of User Programs. “The proposed research by these PIs will address a broad diversity of important … plant and algal functional genomics, inter-organismal interactions, understanding natural communities important …
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… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, … researchers on projects related to understanding how the interactions between viruses and their host microbes impact …
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Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions of plants with their associated microbiomes. … and I hope that this open-source platform will be utilized by researchers from a variety of disciplines who seek to …
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… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to … of plant polyploids. A multi-institutional team led by researchers at Spain’s Universidad de Zaragoza and the …
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