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… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served … techniques) and utilizing these resources to understand genome organization and regulation, abiotic stress … conducts comparative genomic research to understand the evolutionary and practical significance of plant pan-genomes …

… molecule, lignin. Understanding Lentinula genomes and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. Additionally, these …

… external advisory body, the JAC includes representatives from all specialized JGI advisory and executive committees, … Advisory Committee, the Informatics Advisory Committee, the Plant Program User Advisory Committee, the Prokaryote …

… explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has desirable properties as … podcast minisode.)  In 2016, the JGI accepted a proposal from Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute … the way, it was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and the evolution of …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. … and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon … opportunity to study how DGRs work and develop more of them into new biological tools. …

… Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal …