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Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and … in adaptations seen in later plant lineages. The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important … GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins and his graduate student Kaela Amundson at Colorado State …

From left to right: [above] Olivia Ahern, Adriana Corales, Hugh Cross, Megan … Megan Keller and Julia Kelliher; [below] Vassili Kouvelis, Seppe Kuehn, Tesfaye Mengiste, Egbert Schwartz, Hannah … JGI’s User Programs. “These PIs have proposed research that addresses various important scientific questions …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel … uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week … attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, … JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or educational …

Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 … This award recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, development of standards …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to … variations of essential genes in metabolic networks that were missed using traditional approaches. This novel …

Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! … 6,600 researchers working in 21 fields appear on the list, and those from the JGI whose publications rank in the … was part of a long-term multi-institutional research team that combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other … traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot … bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota …