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… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically … thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey, everyone! Welcome to the “Self Promotion Episode” of Natural Prodcast. A little bit of a bonus episode, since I’m off … with Christian, I started getting a little bit more into fungi and learning the differences of all the genetic … Episode Transcript …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to … and recruit new talent for biosciences.  Adopt-a-Genome has: ~20 faculty from institutions across the country Efforts in ongoing curriculum development and adoption of classroom modules Currently 206 genomes have been selected …

… Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when … what escapes to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide). … This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (18- 25706S and …

… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and biochemically characterized at UC Berkeley and the … on genome editing has focused on the seminal CRISPR-Cas9 system, which targets double-stranded DNA. The discovery of … of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The work was supported in part by grants from the Paul Allen Frontiers …

… DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a podcast about natural products and the science and … a marine actinomycete bacterium. So they look kind of like fungi but also make these mycelia. They kind of look like …

… A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy … aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Dr. Tan … culturally, and ecologically important fungi, widely prized as a culinary delicacy, but also because they influence …