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… the fungi side, underground mycorrhizal networks can serve as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate … (JBEI). Cole led the work in collaboration with JBEI as part of the 2021 Laboratory Directed Research and … to understand gene expression within circular capture areas roughly 55-microns in diameter — about the width of a …

… the fungi side, underground mycorrhizal networks can serve as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate … (JBEI). Cole led the work in collaboration with JBEI as part of the 2021 Laboratory Directed Research and … to understand gene expression within circular capture areas roughly 55-microns in diameter — about the width of a …

… to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California …

… and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA packaging, and PRO, a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in  … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science …

… before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, … in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … their research of these newly found methanogens  in diverse ecosystems with  support from a DOE Established Program to …

… secondary metabolites are produced by groups of genes known as biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs.) As reported in the recent Database issue of the journal … a secondary metabolites portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as …

My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium hybridum . …

… the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  … cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through …

JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further confirmed by desire to pursue a STEM career, …     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and …

… have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential to efficiently degrade …