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… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements … isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis … collected. The team noticed some of the genomes diverged evolutionarily from other previously discovered genomes. …

… The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest growing trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them … Laboratory scientists who have uncovered remarkable genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee … From these data it is possible to answer a wide variety of important questions such as which organisms the viruses may … are at fending off the infection, and how long this evolutionary arms race has been going on.  Answering these …

… Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI … interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their …

… A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut … work. Morels are economically, culturally, and ecologically important fungi, widely prized as a culinary delicacy, but …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and … for a masters in nursing with an interest in the genomic basis of health, illness, disease risk, and treatment …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal … role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break … The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …