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Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, …

A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for … production. Building on the framework provided by our new switchgrass manuscript , we plan to use existing data as well as generating additional genomic resources to …

… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science … . … Phakopsora pachyrhizi on MycoCosm Data Portal …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of … of algal genomics and PhycoCosm portal. Dr. Grigoriev engaged thousands of researchers in genome projects and … fungi.  Nature Microbiol. 8(4):596-610. Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … classes of beans.” … P. vulgaris on Phytozome … Plant Datasets …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In fact, lipids can make up more than 90 … Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program ( DGE-1110007 ). SA, AB, and MB were supported by NSF  1706134 . …

Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps …

Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on … with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data and workflows for computational analysis and …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … Czech Academy of Sciences first needed to build a detailed database on the denizens in the soil. While large protein … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from …