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… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking … matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that …
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… For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, … Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …
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… themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to … Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) …
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… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor … in forest ecosystems. By deciphering the fruiting-related decomposition mechanisms of morel with multi-omic approaches, … an artificial environment. It is particularly helpful for studying physiological and biochemical processes driving the …
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… Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative … in cutting-edge genome research and apply experimental and computation tools to solve research problems. In Visel’s …
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… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how …
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… holds keys to drought and flood resilience, biomass production for fuels, and growth in poor soils. In addition to bolstering sorghum fields, understanding this plant … benefitted from sequencing resources as part of the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy …
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… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On August 6, 2021, version 12 of Phytozome will be retired, and version 13 will become the current, and only, version of Phytozome accessible … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …
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… zu Berlin has developed an atlas that maps gene expression patterns in the Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published … by neighboring cells in these processes. One of the study’s co-authors is Benjamin Cole , a research scientist …
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… As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a … the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks shed light on how the JGI was established, … support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have relevance for DOE’s bioenergy and …
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… joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging questions existing in biology. He holds joint appointments as a … generated one of the first mouse models for this common neurological disorder. In 1999, he was named a DOE …
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… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes …
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