Understanding the mechanisms by which potential biofuel feedstocks reproduce can help guide breeding efforts.
JGI Earth Month: Kjiersten Fagnan Reflects on Shelter-in-Place Effects
In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and environmental impacts of the shelter-in-place order as part of JGI Earth Month.
Genome Insider Episode 2: Role of Viruses in Releasing Greenhouse Gases? (2/2)
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The Genome Insider podcast presents research by Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. He’s using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses in the thawing arctic influence the flow of soil carbon. 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.
How Filamentous Fungi Sense Food
A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose.
Natural Prodcast Episode 6: Marc Chevrette
This episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast, features a conversation with Marc Chevrette. Marc is a postdoctoral fellow in Jo Handelsman’s group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where, among lots of other things, he works on the Tiny Earth project.
Natural Prodcast Episode 5: Brad Moore
In this episode of the Natural Prodcast podcast, a conversation with Brad Moore, who has joint appointments at UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The podcast interview was conducted during the SIMB Natural Products conference.
Natural Prodcast Episode 4: Nancy Keller
In this Natural Prodcast episode, Dan Udwary and Alison Takemura chat with Nancy Keller, a fantastic fungal natural products researcher from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The podcast was recorded at the Society for Industrial Microbiology’s Natural Products conference.