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… effort to improve the emerging bioenergy crop switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), which has established 10 … to customize the crop for additional end products. The genetic diversity within this set of plants, each with a … genome, and these gardens allow researchers to test what genes affect the plant’s adaptability to various …
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… here.” Mentor: Lorenzo Aureli Project: “ Exploring the epigenetic basis of pathogenicity in bacteria” Erika Maquiling … distachyon root transporters in plant-microbiome interactions ” Cory-James Pugne-Andenoro : “The best part of … Mentor: Zhong Wang Project: “ Improving biosynthetic gene cluster annotation by leveraging a large genomic model …
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… currently works to support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have relevance … on, from the myriad of omics analyses for understanding gene expression in plants and the environment, to the JGI’s … microbial genetics. Drell held the role until he retired in 2018. “While I never said this out loud,” Drell said, …
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… on the Council of UC Staff Assemblies (CUCSA) from 2015 to 2018, representing Berkeley Lab in this UC-wide staff …
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… with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of fungi by James et al. and Sekimoto et al . … to regain once it is lost. Depending on the exact phylogenetic placement of Olpidium, it may mean that the … remained largely untouched until seven years later. In 2018, as members of the ZyGoLife consortium , my colleagues …
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… predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a … flux in marine microbial communities. Using the JGI-generated data, Sachia Traving, a former postdoctoral fellow … saw populations shift. Smaller picoplankton and free-living microbes that can fix carbon dioxide replaced organic matter …
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… Populus 8:03 PM Natural Diversity in Setaria and a Novel Gene for Shattering In mid-2019, JGI and KBase will be …
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… and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular … research exploiting a diversity of capabilities to generate datasets beyond what each facility could generate individually. Learn more about the projects below. …
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… species. Students collect fungi, sterilize tissue, isolate genes and more. The metadata then goes into iNaturalist. …
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