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… Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint … positions at University of Florida and UCLA he has worked with a wide range of eukaryotic algae, archaea and bacteria with a view to developing a deeper understanding of … Exploiting algal NADPH oxidase for biophotovoltaic energy. Plant biotechnology journal . 14: 1, 22-28. 2016 Blaby et. …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational … in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s … on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity of plants and animals by combining computational genome …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University … undergraduate interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah Mikes worked with mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  …

… to help train the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to teach a second year … The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do …

… The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are … Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award to S.B.C.; NSF DEB-1239992 to N.J.W.; the Emil Aaltonen Foundation and the …

… In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M … Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They also took …

… some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 Annual Meeting . The meeting was a hybrid event, with guests joining onsite at the Integrative Genomics … Variation — From McClintock to Pangenomes Susan Wessler is plant molecular biologist and geneticist and currently a …

… to the global research community.  Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. … Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group. “Turns out … art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes run the world, playing key roles in regulating …

… independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed … genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 mycorrhizal species include 29 … Lorraine, the European Regional Development Fund and the Plant-Microbe Interfaces Scientific Focus Area in the …

… evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make use of it, it would change the … skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and the  microbes that make them. It’s known that aerobic fungi, like …

… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this … Sanger Institute and Cambridge University University in 2005, where he studied RNA editing and cancer genetics. Dr. … Shulse et al. 2019. Engineered Root Bacteria Release Plant-Available Phosphate from Phytate. Appl Environ …