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… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek … Walnut Creek, after countless generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained by a workforce that numbered more than 100 at its peak, all the … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… practices that support agriculture – such as efficiently using dwindling water resources and restoring and maintaining … are at the heart of sustaining food and bioenergy security for a steadily growing worldwide population. Anuvia Plant … drive discoveries that will render new economic advantages for farmers concerned with improving sustainable soil …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is … by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on the … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are … A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux … Aquitaine’ and by the French Government ‘Investments for the Future’ Programme, University of Bordeaux Initiative …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut …

… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . The Science Most … and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes … the use of modern, genomic breeding in these crops. For diploid species, sequencing programs generally focus on …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University …

… (UEC) represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and practices that … JGI at any time in the past two fiscal years is eligible for election to the UEC. Members serve three-year terms and …

… students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by … of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for the final presentations to date.  This summer internship … pandemic. As a result, mentors set up weekly, or in some cases daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and … in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which affects a number of environments, including … within the Nano-lantern scaffold. They then mined sequence databases for homologous YcgR proteins and chose a set of 92 …