During the JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar, researchers described how they had availed of JGI’s resources and capabilities through the Community Science Program’s Functional Genomics call for proposals.
Genome Insider Episode 5: Corals in Hot Water Get Help From Their Microbes
The Genome Insider podcast presents JGI-supported research on the coral microbiome and how it could help corals deal with rising temperatures due to climate change.
Ray Turner Completes Last Tour of Lab Duty at JGI
For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. His vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close.
Genome Insider Episode 4: The Big Deal About Short Plants
The Genome Insider podcast presents JGI-supported research on the “short plant,” Ceratodon purpureus or fire moss. Its genome could shed light on gene function in other plants, including bioenergy sources. Guests Stuart McDaniel and his then-graduate student Sarah Carey of the University of Florida were interviewed at the Plant & Animal Genome (PAG) Conference held in early 2020.
Natural Prodcast Episode 9: Roger Linington
In this episode of the Natural Prodcast, guest Roger Linington from Simon Fraser University talks about the Natural Product Atlas, a high-quality freely-available natural products structure database developed produced by a large international collaboration.
Toward More Efficient Artificial Photosynthesis
A team successfully combined synthetic biology and microfluidics to develop a platform that mimics chloroplast.
Genome Insider Episode 3: River Microbiomes From Around The World
The Genome Insider podcast presents JGI-supported research by Kelly Wrighton and her team at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. With more than a dozen principal investigators, the group has a massive undertaking: sequencing the world’s river microbiomes. JGI is a user facility of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA.
Natural Prodcast Episode 8: Eric Schmidt
This episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast features guest Eric W. Schmidt from the University of Utah, a natural products chemist who works in a wide variety of marine organisms. The interview was conducted at the SIMB Natural Products conference in January 2020.
JGI Earth Month: The Unusual Metabolism That Helps Plants Withstand Drought
For JGI Earth Month, Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa shares how crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM, helps plants take the heat.
JGI Earth Month: Wetlands Work in #TenHundredWords
For JGI Earth Month, graduate student Mo Kaze took on the challenge of explaining her research using the ten hundred most commonly used words in the English language. Her work focuses anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome composition and metabolism. The #TenHundredWords Challenge was inspired by Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic “Up Goer Five” and his subsequent book Thing Explainer.