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Engagement Webinar: What Can You Do With An Approved CSP Functional Genomics Call Proposal?
On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics … the researchers will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the …
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Designer DNA: JGI Helps Users Blaze New Biosynthetic Pathways
A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. …
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Waiting to Respire
Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More …
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From Stress to Growth: The adaptive mechanisms of algae in changing Arctic waters
P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas …
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Olpidium, The Key to the Origin of Terrestrial Fungi
Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …
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Tracing the Evolution of Shiitake Mushrooms
… the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from the … mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. … as well as atmospheric carbon dioxide.  Summary Researchers sequenced 11 samples from Asia–Australasia and 13 samples …
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Kjiersten Fagnan
Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after …
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An Inside Look at How Plants and Mycorrhizal Fungi Cooperate
A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …
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Fungal Friends or Foes in Plant Roots
Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …
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JGI Earth Month: The Unusual Metabolism That Helps Plants Withstand Drought
In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth …
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JGI@25: A Single Cell, Myriad Microbial Discoveries
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an …
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