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… and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to … genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest …

… The JGI’s data stewardship expertise and infrastructure enable a broad community of scientists and engineers to leverage our data to develop new algorithms, models and tools in support of … algal, fungal and microbial genomes and metagenomes — top-quality genomic data, open to all researchers. Book a …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are … head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from … the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists … it’s difficult to link the connections to them from the genetic elements that scientists have found, e.g. plasmids …

… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium hybridum . …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … “All along the way, it was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  …

… To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint … Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant genetics/genomics? Avinash: Having a better handle on the … that to include six more species, so in total, we are looking at 18 different species, which included over 2000 …

… team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey at Duke University and Uwe Ohler … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “This represents the largest … are hallmarks of different cell types.” His contribution to the paper also aligns with his DOE  Early Career Research …

… for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which … is a technique researchers can use to integrate large genetic payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining … to identify which pathway corresponds to which metabolite. Finding a vehicle by which to introduce CRISPR into the …

… by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The … changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any …

… compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other plant-associated … boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Their findings were described in a recent Nature Communications …