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World Ranking
340
National Ranking
176

Overview

Igor V. Grigoriev is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research

Grigoriev has published extensively, with contributions to popular venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • New Phytologist
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Nature Communications

Some recent papers include:

  • "Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages," 2022, Cell
  • "Genomic and functional analyses of fungal and bacterial consortia that enable lignocellulose breakdown in goat gut microbiomes," 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • "101 Dothideomycetes genomes: A test case for predicting lifestyles and emergence of pathogens," 2020, Studies in Mycology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anna Lipzen
  • Kerrie Barry
  • Kurt LaButti
  • Vivian Ng
  • Bernard Henrissat

Best Publications

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray)

    G. A. Tuskan;G. A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

  • The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

    Andrew H. Paterson;John E. Bowers;Rémy Bruggmann;Inna Dubchak

  • The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

    Sabeeha S. Merchant;Simon E. Prochnik;Olivier Vallon;Elizabeth H. Harris

  • The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Thomas Butts;David E. K. Ferrier;Rebecca F. Furlong

  • The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants

    Stefan A. Rensing;Daniel Lang;Andreas D. Zimmer;Astrid Terry

  • The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes

    Chris Bowler;Andrew E. Allen;Andrew E. Allen;Jonathan H. Badger;Jane Grimwood

  • The paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes

    Dimitrios Floudas;Manfred Binder;Robert Riley;Kerrie Barry

  • Sea Anemone Genome Reveals Ancestral Eumetazoan Gene Repertoire and Genomic Organization

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Mansi Srivastava;Uffe Hellsten;Bill Dirks

  • Comparative genomics of the lactic acid bacteria

    K. Makarova;A. Slesarev;Y. Wolf;A. Sorokin

  • The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex

    John K. Colbourne;Michael E. Pfrender;Michael E. Pfrender;Donald Gilbert;W. Kelley Thomas

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the biomass-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (syn. Hypocrea jecorina).

    Diego Martinez;Diego Martinez;Randy M Berka;Bernard Henrissat;Markku Saloheimo

  • MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes

    Igor V. Grigoriev;Roman Nikitin;Sajeet Haridas;Alan Kuo

  • A phylum-level phylogenetic classification of zygomycete fungi based on genome-scale data

    Joseph W. Spatafora;Ying Chang;Gerald L. Benny;Katy Lazarus

  • Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

    Brett M. Tyler;Sucheta Tripathy;Xuemin Zhang;Paramvir Dehal;Paramvir Dehal

  • The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans.

    Nicole King;M Jody Westbrook;Susan L Young;Alan Kuo

  • Trichoderma : the genomics of opportunistic success

    Irina S. Druzhinina;Verena Seidl-Seiboth;Alfredo Herrera-Estrella;Benjamin A. Horwitz

  • The genome of Laccaria bicolor provides insights into mycorrhizal symbiosis

    F. Martin;A. Aerts;D. Ahrén;A. Brun

  • Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists.

    Annegret Kohler;Annegret Kohler;Alan Kuo;Laszlo G Nagy;Laszlo G Nagy;Emmanuelle Morin;Emmanuelle Morin

  • The Genome Portal of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute

    Igor V. Grigoriev;Henrik Nordberg;Igor Shabalov;Andrea Aerts

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) - eScholarship

    G.A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Asaf Salamov
Asaf Salamov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kerrie Barry
Kerrie Barry United States Department of Energy
Anna Lipzen
Anna Lipzen United States Department of Energy
Alan Kuo
Alan Kuo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Erika Lindquist
Erika Lindquist United States Department of Energy
Kurt LaButti
Kurt LaButti United States Department of Energy
Scott E. Baker
Scott E. Baker Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University

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