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… technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of … scientific contributions—including sequencing services and analysis—to participants. Over the past two years, Myco-Ed … (Module 1), Experimental Design and Sample Metadata (Module 2), Sample Collection and Processing (Module 3), Data …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how … genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 mycorrhizal species include 29 …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … came up with this new method, Session mentioned that the analysis for determining the evolutionary history of …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence also provides insights into … crops such as sugarcane and sorghum. The M. sinensis genome analysis explains the hybrid origin of giant miscanthus ( M. …

… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics … Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of analysis would provide a framework for the evolution of this … plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT  genes. Within the AT genes identified …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are … alga genome) and  MycoCosm (for the fungus genome) to aid analysis. Many of the results were unexpected. For example, …

… annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … closest relative S. paradoxus at high temperatures (39°C/102°F). The Impact One of the challenges in understanding wild … phenotype using a strategy called reciprocal hemizygosity analysis via sequencing (RH-Seq). Strains of S. cerevisiae …

… to global oceans. Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 large-scale proposals have been accepted from 70 full … that took place between 2009 and 2013, the  Chaetoceros genus has been identified as the most abundant in the …

… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … global metagenomes (within IMG).  The Impact The initial analysis highlights abundances of gene annotations that … activity in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse environments and grouped …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … from half of the United States. As  reported January 27, 2021 in  Nature , the team led by researchers at the … a combination of really cutting-edge genomics and genetic analysis with large scale data collection,” he added. Jeremy …