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… Knockout experiments showcase potential for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at Brookhaven … x-ray bioimaging experiments were conducted to study iron accumulation and cell wall structure in the … Research, as part of the Quantitative Plant Science Initiative (QPSI) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … noted that even prior to the sequence being published in  Nature , immediate progress had already been made … Glycine max on Phytozome …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … That work was published online June 8, 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a major societal crop … the bean spawned from this original research is the “slow-darkening” trait. Traditionally beans have had a shelf-life …

… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, … Nevada mountain range since 2014 to learn more about the microbial responses and feedbacks to warming through the … interact below the ground, influencing the production of microbial greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds. …

… highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, … arsenic mobility and to better understand their roles in the global sulfur cycle. Copies are available online – …

… Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … and Mar Schmidt; [bottom] Cody Spiegel, James Tan, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, Andressa M. Venturini, Valentin Waschulin, … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … but these symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these …

… – 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 …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 Annual Meeting . The … great impact on these algal blooms. So Vardi and his group study one specific alga,  Emiliania huxleyi  (sequenced by … This work paved the way to move beyond a single case-study, the reference genome, to something that represents …

… The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens …

… Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA … Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial molecular biology Post-doctoral positions  – … Ian Blaby on Google Scholar Grosjean et al ., A hemoprotein with a zinc-mirror heme site ties heme availability to …