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… over 10k samples/year, Dr. Louie and her team work with other JGI scientists in development of new, advanced … Rocha UN, Shi S, et al. Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly. Nat Microbiol. 2018;3: …

… livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using microbial understanding to formulate a vaccine for …

… book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers … most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

… a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, …

… because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material … began to offer a window into viral existence. Along with highlighting the viruses in a given sample, … 16. The same year, the JGI expanded its existing Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes database to include a …

… to energy independence in the U.S. Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop … doesn’t yield enough gallons of fuel per acre to compete with gasoline. Yet.  In 2010, soybean became the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. At the …

… further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining CRAGE with CRISPR provides researchers with a powerful addition to … that produce them. The Impact Secondary metabolites are microbial compounds produced in response to hardship or …

… that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples … Program, and already available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform. Nikos …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There are … of most ferns in many ways, including its large genome with numerous chromosomes. For a long time, this immense …

Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship … Comparative Analysis What effect has your summer internship with the JGI had on your plans to pursue a STEM career?
 … Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What effect has your summer …

… of the JGI is to provide the global research community with access to the most advanced integrative genome science …

… the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand … and small molecules produced by the trees and associated microbial communities. This revealed key metabolic pathways and metabolites associated with the tree’s stress response. Finally, using …