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Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. …

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open access ecological data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations …

JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell … “you-wren”) of the University of Arizona! They join nine other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here … to help advance JGI efforts aimed at “understanding complex communities and symbioses relevant to the DOI mission.” …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … Cells team member Frederik Schulz to screen the microbial communities collected. The team noticed some of the genomes …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … to inform the engineering of stable, synthetic microbial communities to take advantage of their joint metabolisms. …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, … PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have … These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme conditions. The microorganisms …

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s … support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have relevance for DOE’s bioenergy and …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … carbon and nitrogen fixers in alpine and high latitude ecosystems, deciphering their internal molecular mechanisms …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at least 80% complete when studied with …