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P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas … rapid environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden drops …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what … take on ambitious synthetic biology experiments. A recent special issue of the journal Synthetic Biology puts the …

Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale … National Laboratory. Dr. Fagnan has been the Distinguished Speaker at IBM Research in Almaden where she presented work …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. … it into their own carbon-rich structures, as well as atmospheric carbon dioxide.  Summary Researchers sequenced 11 …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich at the … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science … was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s Francis Martin that contributed … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … microbes found in the oil plume from Deepwater Horizon oil spill led to a draft genome of the first deep-sea, … cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program … her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. “This award allows me to work directly with Dr …