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Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors … in GOLD. “Besides these, he curated several small sets of phylogeny, biosample metadata tasks we assigned.”       …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. … UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first …

DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. … for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the  …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the …

From left to right: [above] Olivia Ahern, Adriana Corales, Hugh Cross, Megan DeMarche, Joanne … Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically … The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI … serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons …