“Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is an unlikely model for plant evolution, but is a useful one because it has undergone major habitat shifts: it evolved from marine algae into a terrestrial flowering plant, then moved back to the sea again.” Among the 10 papers that were included the Editors’ Choice list of the Nature journal is the…
Of Mutualism and Lipid Metabolism in Fungi
Novel mechanism in bacterial-fungal symbiosis could have biodiesel production applications The Science To answer the challenge of producing renewable, sustainable alternative fuels, researchers aren’t just looking at developing candidate bioenergy crops but are also reviewing other natural sources of energy-dense oils such as fungi. To learn more about how bacteria interact with fungi in a…
A JGI/EMSL Project in Discover’s 2016 Science Top 100 List
“Microbiologists often seek life in the planet’s extremes — from below ice sheets to within geysers. But Appalachian Basin scientists found hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, also provides its own inhabited extremes in their backyard.” In Discover magazine’s list of top 100 science stories of 2016 is a study from The Ohio State University researchers that led…
DOE JGI Database of DNA viruses and retroviruses debuts on IMG platform
The Science In a series of four articles published in the Database issue of the Nucleic Acids Research journal, DOE JGI researchers report on the latest updates to several publicly accessible databases and computational tools that benefit the global community of microbial researchers. One report focuses on a new database dedicated global viral diversity.
Six from DOE JGI on 2016 Highly Cited Researchers List
Six of the DOE JGI’s researchers are among the most highly cited in the world. That’s according to the annual list compiled by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters. (Click here to see the full list.) The 2016 list focused on Highly Cited Papers (defined in the Methodology section as…
JGI’s Zhong Wang Advised Winning SC16 Student Cluster Team
At the recently concluded supercomputing conference (SC16), students from the University of Science and Technology of China, who went by “Team SwanGeese,” won the Student Cluster Competition. (Click here to read the SC16 story about the winners.) One of the team’s advisers was JGI’s Zhong Wang, head of the Genome Analysis group. Zhong was tapped to participate by…
Engineering a More Efficient System for Harnessing Carbon Dioxide
Despite the vast diversity of organisms on the planet that express enzymes for the conversion of carbon dioxide into such organic compounds as sugars – as plants do through photosynthesis – the efforts to harness these capabilities to transform CO2 into high-value products such as biofuel and renewable chemicals have met with limited success. While…
2017 DOE Joint Genome Institute Community Science Program Allocations Announced
Portfolio additions build upon contributions in sustainable biofuels, plant microbiomes and biogeochemistry. From deep within the Earth to the upper atmosphere, the organisms and ecosystems highlighted in the 37 projects selected for the 2017 Community Science Program (CSP) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User…
Biotech Partners Summer Intern Co-Authors NAR Paper
Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint Genome Institute this summer through the Biotech Partners program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates and feature enhancements to the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) administered…
October 12: Igor Grigoriev on Plos #SciWed redditAMA
On Wednesday, October 12 at 10am Pacific time, PLOS is hosting a #SciWed redditAMA related to a recent Plos Genetics paper on a fungus that severely impacts banana crop yields. Igor Grigoriev, DOE JGI’s Fungal Genomics head, is participating, along with DOE JGI collaborators Steve Goodwin at USDA-ARS and Gert Kema at Wageningen University. Check out…