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… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … Amplification to generate enough DNA to put on a sequencer. As previously mentioned, it’s a method that’s … assembly. So while researchers are confident all the DNA sequences came from one cell, including components like …

… just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS … Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: … on the proposal call page. Feel free to  reach out to any of them with questions. Q:  Apart from instrumental support, …

… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches some 580,000 square miles across … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established …

… from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a critical resource — it provides access to all of JGI’s genomic databases and tools,” noted  Kjiersten Fagnan , JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer. JGI’s Portals, including Phytozome , IMG , GOLD , …

… Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit these sites, as well as the …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … and synthesis work. This is where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … Schmutz is the Plant Program Lead at the JGI. Sarah:  Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant … from a JGI Community Science Program project and another is Lupinus albus from a non-JGI project. Sarah:  I assume you …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is … clearly identifies the four subgenomes based on non-genic sequences.”  In his words, the history of the strawberry is …