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… been an active user of the JGI at any time in the past two fiscal years is eligible for election to the UEC. Members serve three-year terms and can serve no more than two consecutive terms. …
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… has “significantly advanced our understanding of 1 billion years of evolution in Kingdom Fungi — from phylogenetic … The Open Green Genomes Initiative is the product of a 2018 Community Science Program proposal from James …
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… genomics, biodesign and metabolomics capabilities to identify, express and characterize bioactive secondary metabolite … Identification by in vitro-sequencing (RIViT-seq) to identify RNA polymerase-sigma factor targets, and have expanded … Report Card toolkit (HERC-tk) to enable users to identify the best host to express their BGC(s). This is based on …
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… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements … any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years evolving tactics against potential threats. “Because … team leveraged transcriptomics and other assays to identify and test carbohydrate-active enzymes. They found many …
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… ranging from wetlands to tree islands to cattails. In 2018, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … comprehensive learning experience.” Over the course of the year, she and other JGI staff conducted several real-time, … publication in a reputable scientific journal. It was gratifying to see the empowerment displayed across each of their …
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… Achievement Award (2022) ASM’s USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award (2018) Honorary Doctorate from the Aristotle University of …
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… uncultured in laboratories. Other firsts followed. The next year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished … deep-sea, oil-eating bacterium from a single cell. Several years later, the continuing single cell sequencing … JGI’s single cell genomics capabilities to assemble, identify, and characterize more than 200 microbial genomes that …
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… working virtually with her JGI mentors for nearly three years after her internship. “That level of commitment and … in this publication during her summer internship in 2018. She selected one of the projects posted by JGI fungal … can be found in fossil records dating over a billion years old. It’s an insanely diverse group of organisms that …
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… that a new genetic mapping strategy called RH-Seq can identify genes that promote heat resistance in the … annotation to harness the genomic data. Reported October 8, 2018, in Nature Genetics , a team led by researchers at the … between species that have been separated for millions of years. The study highlights the genes that could be used to …
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… metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The … As previously mentioned, it’s a method that’s been used for years but in most cases, the majority of the cell’s genome …
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