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… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for … kumquats, limes, pomelos, mandarins, sweet oranges, and more. Unlike citrus, trifoliate orange ripens only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the globe, often as a …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic …

… the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from … Science user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is to become the leading integrative genome science user …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. … that time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than non-polar algae. They …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into … fungal genes, in addition to associated plant genes.  Hear more from Ben Cole and Margot Bezrutczyk in a  recent …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from … capabilities, large-scale data, and professional expertise to support the global research community in studies of … users — 2,475 — had active proposals with us, along with more than 15,000 secondary users who made use of our data. …

… the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand how ecosystems work and how … outlined in  Scientific Data connects molecular features to large ecosystem-level processes for the first time. By …

User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “This represents the largest … are hallmarks of different cell types.” His contribution to the paper also aligns with his DOE  Early Career Research … areas for one of the Area divisions. Dickel, and more recently Cole, have been leading these efforts, which …

… best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and … and breeders aren’t interested in waiting decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing … and are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted genome editing techniques to customize the …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. … across the fungal tree of life to date, involving more than 500 species of fungi. The Impact Interactions … Office of Science User Facility, and others like it, are uncovering the true diversity of the fungal kingdom. The …

… featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human … to use resources to sequence it,” Patrinos said. After many more meetings and letters of persuasion, Patrinos and his … manager in 2006 when the JGI transitioned from human to microbial genetics. Drell held the role until he retired in …