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… basketball star LeBron James. In each garden, switchgrass plants clonally propagated from cuttings represent a diverse … end products. The genetic diversity within this set of plants, each with a fully-sequenced genome, and these … across the chromosomes. “In the past, we needed model systems to test genetic hypotheses in species with large and …

Harrison Ho, Maria Mendoza, Erone Cao and Sabah Ul-Hasan share how these experiences have influenced their career …

… crop for its potential production of biomass on marginal lands not usable for conventional food crops. For that … that makes up an individual’s genome. The genes of sorghum plants are likely responsible for the crop’s ability to … rhizosphere (soil surrounding the root) samples from the plants at the same time each week over the full life cycle …

… is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, … both a gene likely important for sex determination and a shared genetic architecture with Y chromosomes in mammals: a … assays that can distinguish males and females even when plants with multi-year generation times are young and …

… of topics related to structural biology, single cell and systems biology, omics, and big data science, machine … jointly expanding into new areas of research. The extensive algae collection at University of Duisburg-Essen is of … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  …

… of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of viruses impact many … Group Lead at the JGI.  To understand the microbiome systems underpinning a broad range of environmental … invisible to the sampling experiments probing Earth’s ecosystems. Viruses rarely grow well in environmental samples …

Sci Rep. 2013;3: 1656. … Education … Selected Publications …

Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their … of Cell Identity as an R package … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

… accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches … improve the process of finding novel Cas genes and CRISPR systems. The collaboration has resulted in several papers, … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V …

… sequence-based methods for elucidating the gene regulatory landscape of vertebrate genomes, which led to the discovery … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, … signatures reveal a regulator of lipid metabolism in microalgae .  Nature Plants 1: 15107 Lupiáñez DG, Kraft K, …