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Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The … 5mC is often found in transposable elements or transposons that can move to another location in the genome. Many plant … User Facility, and others like it, are uncovering the true diversity of the fungal kingdom. The abundance of fungal …

… how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear …

Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for … on Intensive Agricultural Lands Changes Nitrogen Cycling Microbial Communities and Reduces N2O Production Potential …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … in plants. To better pinpoint the biosynthetic routes that produce terpenes, the JGI synthesized several of the … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

Find a series of webinars related to our Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes portal. …

JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell … his interest in giving a voice to JGI users who feel that certain data sharing policies fail to represent the … noted, “I would also like to offer my insights in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in STEM disciplines to …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … Schmutz explained, meaning the plant’s reduced genetic diversity makes it easier to genetically manipulate. One …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy …

Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … “The proposed research by these PIs will address a broad diversity of important scientific questions relevant to the …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion … those who are already familiar with the research portfolio that the JGI supports, include JGI’s emerging leadership …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … to stop and having responsibilities. I like the environment that JGI brings and being able to be a part of … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …

… viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be found trying to convince others that RNA viruses are actually interesting and not just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …