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… What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden … Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

… The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of … is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is … sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied clades, establishing their …

… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching … were two undergraduate students and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great … latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert …

… proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. … for projects that will leverage the JGI’s DNA synthesis and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and …

… sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …

… (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize users with the … data with existing bioinformatic methods to bridge the gap from sequence to biology. …

… program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with … all the work that went into this program was the feedback from the graduate student interns; “it changed what I want … interns. For him, it was a special moment to see interns go from being “intimidated and nervous” at the beginning of the …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea Du Toit, senior editor for  Nature Reviews … this role. “We work with leaders in environmental genomics from around the globe through a collaborative network of …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new … (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire. …