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In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … a condition known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic … genome doubling. In allopolyploids, the set of chromosomes from each ancestor is called a subgenome. Session and …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements … Over the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and wet lab experiments, to …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an … and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … novel compounds to help bolster the bioeconomy. Summary A team led by Michelle O’Malley, a chemical engineer at the …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … covering the entire kingdom of fungi. “The information from this project may also have a practical relevance with … about what it means to be a scientist. “To see how team science is done at an advanced and large research …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The … researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the … provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to collect …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … collection of publicly accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, … Doudna’s interest in CRISPRs began with a conversation from another UC Berkeley colleague, longtime JGI …

Mr. Everson rejoined the JGI in 2020  and leads all aspects of JGI … departments. He previously served as JGI’s Business Manager from 2007 to 2012, overseeing all financial and logistics … have an impact on management of the JGI.  In addition, he makes decisions or final recommendations on operational …

… of East Anglia, leads this effort to understand what makes polar photosynthesizers tick. He’s working with … such as photosynthesis and gene regulation.  Mock and his team then linked those species-level observations with data … on microalgal communities across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing …

… resource for the broader scientific community and require constant developments to meet the ever-changing demands of … analysis and annotation of all publicly available genomes from three domains of life, in a uniquely integrated … in the context of reference isolate genomes included from the IMG/M system. … IMG/PR is a plasmid genome resource …

When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …