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For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant …

… analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a … can lead to changes in protein structures and functions, but the DNA bases themselves can also be modified. The best-known example of a modified DNA base is a methylation of the base cytosine at the 5th position on its carbon …

… of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the … fungus  Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell … is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long … the OGG. For a long time, C-fern has served as a model for studying ferns and for teaching plant biology. It is typical …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years … after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, after …

… and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the students participated in networking workshops, data carpentry hackathons, and also made new friends while working on their summer …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought invaluable insights, thoughts, and explorations that has led to groundbreaking science and opportunities …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already … this Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Newscenter story and this piece in  Current Opinion in …

Edward Lu and mentor Miguel Romero Sean Saki and mentors  Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Sivagunalan Thamilarasan and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Feng Yu and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors …

… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small …