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On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their … layers. The architecture of these algorithms, inspired by communication networks found in nature, allows machines … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can … boost yields for both food and for candidate bioenergy feedstock crops. Summary A plant is like an office building, its roots are akin to the ground floor lobby. People walking into the lobby have many reasons for …

… month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a … The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are also seen in flowering plants, or … resistance of plants to the Earth’s ever-changing harsh habitats, thus allowing them to spread across most of the …

Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to … regulation, abiotic stress tolerance, and the mechanisms by which plants interact with their microbiomes. In … Visiting Fellowship Australia … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint … difficult. Our Plant Gene Atlas resource addresses that by providing standardized experimental conditions, tissue … relevant and evolutionarily conserved genes that could be potential future targets for functional genomic studies. We …

State University, Tempe, Chemical Engineering Post-doctoral positions – Arizona State University, Bioengineering & … Excellence Award 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement 2012 UC Berkeley, … Google Scholar. … Education … Awards and Honors … Selected Publications …

… at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens … The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for the symbiosis, including those …

UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science … Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Polymorphisms Created by Transposable Elements … Evolution of the Mitochondria … P. hallii Mutant Library … Evaluation of Binning Tools for Microbial Eukaryotes in Metagenomes … Functional exploration …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from … of products, making data easier to access and use, and by investing in the latest advanced genomic capabilities to … processed 13,700 metabolomics samples With our users, 247 publications were published   … Our primary objective is to …

… on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what … research is very sentimental to me.” Mentors: Crysten Blaby-Haas & Bikash Shrestha Project: “ Detecting Isotope Bonds … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …