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Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome … Resource Center (GACRC) and Georgia Genomics and Bioinformatics Core (GGBC) at the University of Georgia provided …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help … the outsized role the fungi play in digesting plant material in herbivore guts. A deeper dive into the genomes …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science . …

… – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California …

… have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and … minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. More than 20 UC Merced students have … Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several of the …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … packaging, and PRO, a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science … corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … partnership is more commonplace — though perhaps no less dramatic. In lichen, the photosynthetic partner, either a … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had … Director within this same organization during the formation of the Division in 2015-2016. Dr. Northen regularly … … Metabolomics Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … cost and resource requirements of processing these sturdy materials, rumen microbes and their enzymes are an optimal … from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their …