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… The JGI is excited to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Facilities (FICUS) program for fiscal year 2026, in partnership with the … Laboratory, and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) through the National Science Foundation (NSF). …

… The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring generalizable technologies to bacteria, yeasts and algae previously with little to no … For further details, please reach out to the Group Lead …

… had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish symbiotic … Recently published in  Nature Communications , the work was led by a consortium of researchers from the French … on the JGI fungal portal  MycoCosm . The work builds upon several papers and workshops, starting with the first …

… The JGI’s DNA Synthesis Program supports a wide range of projects, from single-gene synthesis to the synthesis of entire chromosomes, advancing the development of biofuels, biochemicals and other … global energy and environmental challenges. The program supports cutting-edge research in synthetic biology by …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science … The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play key roles in … by graduate student Fantin Mesny in Stéphane Hacquard’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target … particularly sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … RIViT-seq expand the known transcriptional regulatory network in bacteria, enabling the discovery of regulatory …

… Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant … is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science Graduate Student …

… “Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s … microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of … opportunity, provided by the Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced …

… See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our Community Science Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, and Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science calls. These …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex … species has revealed, for the first time, that this group is unexpectedly powerful: they can whip up dozens of … and commodity chemicals, as well as drop-in biofuels. This work shows that anaerobic fungi might be a new source of …

… delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size … biology professor at the Université des Antilles in Guadeloupe, in 2009. Gros’ research focuses on marine mangrove … the discovery-based position at the LRC that would see him working at the JGI, Gros allowed him to continue research on …