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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 … (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is …

… 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. … Below find a list of the six researchers accepted for 2023. Proposals are accepted year-round; the next deadline …

… 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.  … 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. …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … 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 …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea Du Toit, senior editor for  Nature Reviews …

…   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. …