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… our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water … plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into other …

… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly … The team identified 15 core genes shared across all fungi, and found that some of these genes have moved from … dataset gives researchers a new foundation for studying how fungi produce and manage energy at the cellular level. …

… the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look at more ecosystems and organisms than … we caught up with JGI staff, collaborators and users to see how software and supercomputing capabilities have evolved to … for over 20 years in order to better understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. When she set out to …

… assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how genes are regulated is like deciphering the complex … with smaller genomes, such as bacteria and certain fungi. Scaling the technology’s availability to users is a … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became … for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product … mass spectrometry research products such as stable isotope probing (SIP) to assess metabolite turnover, DNA-SIP …

… of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle … affect their prey in different ways. They have the capacity to kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they lyse … then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 hosts they found, how prevalent in the mat are their viruses? The abundance of …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for …

… in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 … 4th year PhD student in Quantitative and Systems Biology Mentor: Guohong Wu, Plant Comparative Analysis What effect has … of fungal genomics data. For me, it was an opportunity to adapt my existing skill set to a new scale, which presented …

… Four researchers have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome … Bik is a recipient of the Community Science Program (CSP) New Investigator call. Through membership in the UEC, … decade in gene regulatory network projects supported by the CSP, and as part of microbiome research involving the …

… Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental and energy … through the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to …

… crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and … ecosystems. This means they hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. They also produce …

… one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander … will serve the JGI and KBase for years to come.” A slideshow depicting 15-years of photo memories of Ray’s tenure, …