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Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. … and how great it was to have an experienced career scientist as a mentor.  …

… components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: … yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how … modification happening in the absence of oxygen. These findings offer the first real irrefutable proof that lignin …

Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and … datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from … Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC). … Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh is the Metagenome Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to …

… roots, creating a lively zone called the rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

… compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other plant-associated … boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Their findings were described in a recent Nature Communications …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint … Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant genetics/genomics? Avinash: Having a better handle on the … that to include six more species, so in total, we are looking at 18 different species, which included over 2000 …

… by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The … changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any …

… in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research … facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, … in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, Engineering, Tokyo …

… learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of … (Berkeley Lab), has generated a more accurate phylogenetic tree tracking the evolution of  Dothideomycetes fungi. The  work appeared in the June issue of  Studies in Mycology . This work was enabled in …

… 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently …

… 25th anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … organizations. From field research and wet lab experiments, to computational modeling and virtual projects, hear intern …