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May 6, 2012

Mount Marty College students wrap first project with DOE JGI’s “Interpret a Genome” program

“Annotating genes is a lot of work, and you have to pay a lot of attention to detail,” said April Knapp, one of seven students who presented findings from the class’s research Friday. “But it’s also very interesting because bioenergy and biofuel is such a high-needs fields. To know that the research we did here… [Read More]

March 26, 2012

White rot fungal genomics analysis on EcoSeed

Scientists at the Energy Department’s Joint Genome Institute are comparing the genetic structure of two strains of white rot fungi in order to develop better enzymes for biofuel production.White rot fungi digest moist wood, causing it to rot and decay. These fungi possess natural enzymes that break down the cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin of plant… [Read More]

March 22, 2012

A science illustrator’s take on the DOE JGI 2012 Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting

Science illustrator Emily Coren’s rendering of Carl Zimmer’s keynote presentation at the DOE JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 20, 2012. [Read More]

March 22, 2012

DOE JGI Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting coverage by GenomeWeb

Purdue University’s Jody Banks kicked off the scientific sessions at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s 7th annual User Meeting in Walnut Creek, Calif., this week with her talk on the Selaginella genome and how sequencing diverse species could help researchers understand plant evolution. Read more at GenomeWeb [Read More]

February 14, 2012

2013 federal budget proposal in GenomeWeb Daily News

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science, which funds the Joint Genome Institute and other biology research aimed at developing better renewable biofuels and energy-related technologies, would receive $5 billion, compared to $4.9 billion this fiscal year. Read the full GenomeWeb News story on the Obama administration’s 2013 budget proposal. [Read More]

January 17, 2012

Permafrost study referenced in ScienceNews

In Nature in December, a team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif., and colleagues reported one such microbe’s draft genome — put together from DNA acquired from the semifrozen dirt in an Alaskan black spruce forest. The Alaskan microbe carries genes tuned to transform organic matter into methane, a finding that… [Read More]

January 13, 2012

1000 Fungal Genomes project in The Daily Barometer

Joey Spatafora, an associate professor at Oregon State University, is leading an international project to sequence the genomes of a thousand fungi, a project aptly named 1000 fungal genomes. “It’s a really, really exciting time in fungal biology because we can sequence fungal genomes more easily than we could ten years ago,” Spatafora said. The Daily Barometer [Read More]

January 7, 2012

Cotton project in the Delta Farm Press

An international consortium, led by Professor Andrew Paterson of the University of Georgia, has made publicly available the first ‘gold-standard’ genome sequence for cotton. Cotton was among the first plants studied at the molecular level, and the sequence obtained by Paterson and his team is the culmination of a 20-plus year effort in the analysis… [Read More]

December 14, 2011

Permafrost metagenome study on VOA Special English report

The researchers say one gram of the soil could contain thousands of different kinds of microbes and billions of cells. They say these organisms had never before been cultured in a laboratory. JANET JANSSON: “So more than ninety percent of those bacteria and other microorganisms in permafrost, we had no idea what they were.” Read… [Read More]

December 5, 2011

Tanja Woyke: Genome Technology 2011 Young Investigator

What inspired Tanja Woyke to pursue her current area of focus is also what makes it possible: single-cell genomic technology. “It allows one to sequence the genome of one individual microbial cell by amplifying its genome a billion-fold using a process called multiple displacement amplification,” she says. “I find this quite fascinating. Such an approach… [Read More]