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… joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages … and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass spectrometry-based techniques, the platform delivers … Sci Rep. 2013;3: 1656. … Education … Selected Publications …

Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has released their 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers , … ranging from industrial production to agricultural plant pathogens. Reported in Nature Genetics, the work is part of …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By … in close algal relatives  to terrestrial plants showcases how early plants built upon an ancient genetic … of how plants adapted to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with … and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA packaging, and PRO, a cysteine protease … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able …

The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes … environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 encompasses four subgroups, adapted … help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range. But at what … of genomic, quantitative genetic, landscape, and niche modeling approaches, we contrasted the diversity of 4X and …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with … Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as build their … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to … is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … at exactly what happens at all levels and developing models for cellular properties, communities and ecosystems.” …

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

… from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with … samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, is easy to generate, but difficult to assemble and interpret. … costly approaches such as BLAST and hidden Markov models (HMMs), “You just compute the distance between two …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including …