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… registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … of these varied biomes; the forests share only about 20% of their fungal species. To make useful comparisons, the … mycorrhizal symbionts shuttle water and nutrients to trees; plant pathogens colonize living plants to feed on them.  …

… and postdocs (including LBNL students and postdocs): $250      Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … who also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department … CSP call had five areas of emphasis: genes to function, plant and algal functional genomics, inter-organismal …

… The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope … most widespread type of mycorrhizal fungi, live within a plant’s root system. They form mutually beneficial …

… You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … a list of researchers whose proposals were accepted for 2025. Utilizing the JGI’s resources, these researchers will … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, from alpine …

… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Kyrpides led the development of the genome analysis and Bioinformatics core at Integrated …

… Doherty, Adrian A. Estrada-Graf, Nicole M. Fernandez; [Row 2]: Zachary Garvin, Chandan Kumar Gautam, Gareth Gillard, Audrey Goeckner, Jennifer Goff, Sarah Gonzalez Henao, Yang Hai, Julia G. Harenčár, … and genome assembly to investigate microbial and plant metabolism across diverse ecosystems — from Antarctic …

…   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two … This work was supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Biological and …

… Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … and the fact that I got to do a project involving over 12,000 fungal genomes was just really, really exciting for me …

… DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of … Ben Cole on a project involving bacteria in Arabidopsis plant roots. At the same time, Lawrence worked with Nicole …

… cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … them to test composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director …