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JGI’s Community Science Program gives researchers access to all kinds of sequencing, ‘omics and bioinformatics capabilities — and … and the environment several times a year. A few proposal calls have deadlines coming up – in January, March, and …

… data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s … Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … evolutionary genomics .” Understanding the nature and genetic basis of functional traits in sphagnum growth and …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the same place they often source their … to decay wood were widely conserved across species. Specifically, many species had very similar plant cell wall …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years … Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Dr. Tan details the results of the team’s work. Morels are economically, culturally, and ecologically important fungi, widely …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … a little deeper, and realized what was really happening,” recalled Sean Gallaher, a research scientist in Sabeeha … for User Science” (FICUS) collaborative science initiative between the JGI and EMSL.  … The U.S. Department of Energy …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as build their network in the field of genomics and scientific research. The …

… speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … factor. Predicting those relationships bioinformatically is almost impossible, and the experimental process for …

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s … during his time as program manager, he rarely received calls that were critical of the JGI’s work. Those which he …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Maximizing soybean yield is critical to … Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop rotation, but soybean ( Glycine max ) also …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study … food webs are microscopic photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and …