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… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … To see how the fungus affected poplar growth, the team compared poplar cuttings grown with and without an … and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal …

… about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Natural products, secondary metabolites, and specialized metabolites all refer to … research, “Natural Prodcast” serves as an important line of communication to the scientific community. Host Dan Udwary …

… attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting.  A wide array of invited speakers shared how … The JGI offers these solutions to the worldwide scientific community through its  User Programs on a competitive, … address of the 2023 JGI Annual Meeting. As the JGI’s Metagenome Science Program Head, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, …

… Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed Margulisbacteria, … The research teams opted to collaborate on a single study, with Matheus Carnevali and Schulz sharing co-first …

… word. The 500 species described within the group are responsible for roughly two-thirds of antibiotics, and a deeper … a public platform built on the knowledge of researchers studying actinomycetes and the focus of a  recent paper … API’s offer a space to not just store data, but for the community to discuss those data and make publicly-visible …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and … and John Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  Brachypodium distachyon plant root …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. … cyclic di-GMP in bacteria through work enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) . The Impact Cyclic di-GMP … metal corrosion in oil pipes. Scientists have tried to study cyclic di-GMP and cellular networks with fluorescent …

… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one way or another, they’ve all …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the … of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage …