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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … One review article in the collection, Genomics-enabled analysis of specialized metabolism in bioenergy crops: … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the  Environmental … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for vitamins, insecticides, fungicides, platform chemicals, cosmetics and new crop …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics … Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … science.  Dr. Sneddon is an accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play … expanded genes for proteins requiring zinc. Co-expression analysis as well as laboratory culture experiments showed …

… The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these … bioenergy feedstocks, algae are tiny but mighty. An analysis in the 2017 Bioeconomy Report estimated that the … in Igor Grigoriev’s team at the JGI led the multi-omics analysis effort for a more complete picture. The team …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey bees and …

… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … global metagenomes (within IMG).  The Impact The initial analysis highlights abundances of gene annotations that … constricting metabolic activity in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … The Prize also recognizes innovative and impactful analysis of microbiome data that has changed our … combination of experimental approaches and large-scale data analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil …