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… soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in … understanding of this symbiosis could offer improvements in multiple directions. On the fungi side, underground … this symbiosis. “Those are great candidates for genetic engineering. Our hope is that the community at large will …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … Lab) were on the scene collecting samples. Terry Hazen, a former Berkeley Lab environmental biologist and current … properties, communities and ecosystems.” Building off multiple collaborations, Lab researchers working with the …

… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … and investigate how transporter proteins regulate the production of root exudates, which overall influences the …

DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate … Systems Biology (QSB) Group under the School of Natural Sciences (SNS). During his eight weeks at the DOE …

… projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and integrating mathematics and … … BS – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Chemical Engineering Ph. D. – Arizona State University, Tempe, … Google Scholar. … Education … Awards and Honors … Selected Publications …

The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … burned soils had in common.  To complete this analysis, a multi-institutional team of researchers collected soil …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … challenges, characterizing viruses is a key step. For decades, though, many viruses have been somewhat … over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes. That study multiplied the number of known viral genes by a factor of …

… array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the absence of all the other letters of the alphabet. … stone to studying many genomes simultaneously through multiDAP, which allows researchers to conduct comparative … materials, which could be useful for industrial biofuel production, and multicellular development. “DAP-Seq is the …

… back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … loosely understood, leaving potential targets for crop engineering untouched. Research recently published in  The … enzymes in specialized metabolism, organisms tend to evolve multiple copies of enzymes, similar to including half a …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields … Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What effect has your summer …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …