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… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … are.” But according to a new study published September 16, 2021 in Nature Communications , warmer waters and … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To … The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly …

… to be the same species that covered World Cup pitches in 2022.                     …

… to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American … “Characterizing Virus-Driven Alterations of Microbial Metabolism in Model Soil Ecosystems,” uses a combination of …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … ethanol, an undesired product of the yeast’s native glucose metabolism Alper’s graduate student Xiunan Yi visited the … shipment schedule, with plates arriving every couple of months. The question for the researchers was, would the …

Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and … seconds or minutes — a trait that could help improve crop drought resilience. It’s a superpower even Marvel’s …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading … Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time estimates for …

… (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase … in our new Strategic Plan , which was released in April 2024 — through serving an increased number of users with a … our planet encode these functions in their genomes, and the JGI is uniquely positioned to combine sequencing, DNA …