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Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen microbes involved in the digestion …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  … . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. … UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS … for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the  …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change … impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water samples were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the …

From left to right: [above] Olivia Ahern, Adriana Corales, Hugh Cross, Megan … Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, … large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna noted in her …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes contribution of scholarship in the field of microbiology and is awarded …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and …