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Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first … the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … the bacterial cells on the molecular level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … M. importuna CCBAS932 from the forests of France, were sequenced and annotated by a collaborative team. The genome …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, “Once …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The … University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as … the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – …

On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences … just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS … range from traditional single cell sequencing and mini-metagenomics to more targeted approaches, such as …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” …