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Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass …

… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. … the soil. And I’m specifically working with a grass plant that’s similar to wheat and rice called Brachypodium …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … three  Brachypodium  grasses have small genomes, short life cycles and can be easily transformed, traits that make them easy to work with bioinformatically and in …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in … has brought invaluable insights, thoughts, and explorations that has led to groundbreaking science and opportunities 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 …

… and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer … the Wang group has developed customized data analyses and software to enable “grand-scale” scientific projects. These … metagenome binning software … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the … Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only around 30% …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist …

… and relevance to the DOE’s mission.  Have someone proofread your proposal to make sure the goals, experimental … they’re staying under the sequence cap? A(nswer): Proposals that are looking at multiple areas or multiple ways to … the 500-gigabase cap and that you don’t request outside of the sample range that’s listed. Q: What are the pros and …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … AT, Blaby-Haas CE. (2024) Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins. Nature Rev Micro 22, 63. Davidi L, … Google Scholar … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … networks can serve as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … networks can serve as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In …