Results

Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus
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Complete genome sequence of Nitrosomonas sp. Is79, an ammonia oxidizing bacterium adapted to low ammonium concentrations
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Diversity of genomic adaptations to the post‐fire environment in Pezizales fungi points to crosstalk between charcoal tolerance and sexual development
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Susannah Tringe Named 2020 DOE Lawrence Award Recipient
Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received … studies of microbial assemblies, revealing the roles of microbial communities in carbon cycling, in …
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A Shrubbier Version of Rubber
… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert …
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Architecture of thermal adaptation in an Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain isolated from 3 million year old permafrost: A genome and transcriptome approach
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An Enzyme Family that Helped Shape Nitrogen Metabolism on Our Planet
Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely …
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Crysten Blaby-Haas
Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … to include in vitro protein-based techniques, algae, and plants, while focusing on understanding the evolution and … Google Scholar … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …
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High Five: Celebrating the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program
… 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 … Clarissa Nobile, investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the …
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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who … analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems function. He was …
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Olpidium, The Key to the Origin of Terrestrial Fungi
Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of …
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Researching and Solving Real-World Problems with the 2023 JGI-UC Merced Interns
For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … mentor Satria Kautsar, Comparing BGC Detection Tools and Exploring Novel BGC Detection Techniques on Fungal Genomes …
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