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… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from … Genomics and Systems Biology Division of the Lab’s Biosciences Area since 2018. Woyke also holds appointments …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes …

… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … National Laboratory, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Duke University, published their research … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This … what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a group of plants in the Agave family with …

… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. … an artificial environment. It is particularly helpful for studying physiological and biochemical processes driving the …

… experience from almost 20 years in the Industrial Biotechnology private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites and synthetic biology. Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started … Nigel Mouncey is the Secondary Metabolites Program head as well as our JGI Director. …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems … the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes … floor. Alicia Purcell of Northern Arizona University is studying microbial metabolism in the Antarctic Peninsula. …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … research, written skill, above all else, determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute …

… Edward Lu and mentor Miguel Romero Sean Saki and mentors  Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Sivagunalan Thamilarasan and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Feng Yu and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … plant biologist at West Virginia University (WVU), led the study’s international team, which included scientists from …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … reliant on the continued presence of the bacteria. By studying the Rm-Burkholderia symbiosis model, the team was … This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of …

… Select interns look back on meaningful lessons from their summer experiences at the … Hi. I'm Jehan Jacobs. I'm a rising sophomore at UC Berkeley studying data science. I’m here at the Lab with the SEED … Northwestern University. I'm in the SULI program, and I'm studying computer science and statistics. I would say the …