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… 2017 Summer Interns Share Highlights of their time at the JGI …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome … the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new experimental approaches to …

… the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may help the pathogens evade a plant’s defenses. … least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 Fungal Genomes initiative of the U.S. Department of …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions … at the NeLLi: New Lineages of Life Symposium in April, which immediately precedes the JGI’s 14th Annual … Hot Springs is a highly-reduced, suboxic system that may be analogous to environments found on early Earth.”  …

… notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake … JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and to better …

… with advanced computer skills. During the summer of 2016,  DOE CGSF recipient Adam Riesselman of Harvard …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became … the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass spectrometry-based … composition of the root-associated microbiome in maize (Zea mays). Scientific Reports. 2021. …

The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 to encourage and enable researchers to more easily …

… disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of … a disease ravaging citrus groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an … resistance to citrus greening disease. Trifoliate orange may be a plant of bitter fruit, yet sweet are its genetic …

… scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms … studies to date. This paper  is the cover article for the April 2024 issue  of  Nature Plants .  “We wanted to better … led the work in collaboration with JBEI as part of the 2021 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) …

… ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches using statistical analyses to continuously refine and … has resulted in several papers, including one in 2018 on the discovery of miniature CRISPR-associated proteins … Cas9 with increased lifetime in human plasma. Nat Commun. 2017 Nov 10;8(1):1424. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01408-4. …

… amount of biomass which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, … make it a viable candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two … productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team led by …