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… Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is also co-director of the … paper describing the genomes of the five major cotton lineages. Grimwood was also part of the JGI team that …

… Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel received his … methods for elucidating the gene regulatory landscape of vertebrate genomes, which led to the discovery of thousands of genetic switches implicated in developmental …

… SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … genomes to a diploid state while retaining multiple copies of some genes. This polyploidization process is ongoing and … and confer stress tolerance traits. Given the importance of polyploidy in plants, researchers have sought to learn …

… Over the last few months, we found an increasing number of colleagues missing elements of the required PPE in the lab. To address this issue, we … to provide our colleagues with a visual representation of JGI PPE requirements. When working in the lab, it is … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave event in the ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern subarctic …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of … Lab), through the JGI Community Science Program . The metagenomes were also processed using the JGI-developed …

… recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office …

… Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … together a puzzle without necessarily knowing the final image. In contrast, assembling the sugarcane genome was more …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … the low maintenance, it can produce an impressive amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable …