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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … she stumbled upon an interesting observation in Chlamy. Most plants require the nutrient copper for photosynthesis; … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my … Charles Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” theory — the most expressed genes found across each of the fungal species …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or … host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … break down plant sugars. The results also revealed that the most beneficial fungi in root mycobiomes weren’t necessarily …

Our lab is using mass spectrometry based metabolite profiling to provide direct biochemical datasets to improve our understanding of microbial metabolism. Of particular interest is …

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 … californicus (and cone snails in general) outside of mostly anecdotal information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … or absence can impact the planet’s nutrient cycles. While most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with …

The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring … technologies to bacteria, yeasts and algae previously with little to no genetic tools enabling heterologous … integrated into a taxonomically diverse suite of microbial chassis strains for elevated opportunity for …