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… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” … in metagenomics and novel applications for long-read DNA sequencing. As a UEC member, Wilbanks will advocate for …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to … as an energy source.  Until recently, our understanding of these methanogenic microorganisms was narrowed to a type …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … M. importuna CCBAS932 from the forests of France, were sequenced and annotated by a collaborative team. The genome …

Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … metabolic and functional capabilities. Take part in the "Sequences to Cultures" Jamboree!  Immediately following the … to a new appreciation for the extent of diversity. The phylogenetic and functional characterization of this novel …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … all over the world, including 3,908 isolate reference DNA viruses and 264,413 computationally identified viral …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi … the Women in STEM campus organization and is involved with multiple outreach programs promoting the advancement of …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic …

Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. … raphanica and L boryana in the Americas. Tracing these phylogenetic relationships suggests that the shiitake …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …