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In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the … Joint Genome Institute (JGI) , a DOE Office of Science User Facility. She took special interest in it because she …

… 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. …

… the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass spectrometry-based techniques, the … composition of the root-associated microbiome in maize (Zea mays). Scientific Reports. 2021. …

… microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … Nature Biotechnol. 35, 725-731. Paez-Espino D, et al. 2016. Uncovering Earth’s virome. Nature 536 , 425-430. …

… for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her … reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples from common gardens growing across the … involved researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, HudsonAlpha, and the JGI. Building off this work, …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. … and colleagues set sail on research cruises in 2015 and 2016. At Station ALOHA , site of the 30-years-long Hawaii …

The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 to encourage and … of multiple Department of Energy Office of Science National User Facilities into their research. In recognition of the …

… off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held … source of antibiotics. Indeed, these anaerobic fungi may be using these compounds for self-defense. But the …

… leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021 May 4;118(18). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2019855118 … Biosciences Inventor of the Year 2019 R&D100 Award 2016 Berkeley Lab Director Exceptional Achievement Award …

The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … from the atmosphere than current natural processes and use it as a sustainable resource for making high-value … allows them to test composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, …

… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the … of those. That work published in Nature Communications on June 17 , 2022, was conducted by JGI Director Nigel Mouncey …