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… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a … changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … all the work that went into this program was the feedback from the graduate student interns; “it changed what I want … group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he has started a new position as the Senior Manager, Machine Learning at …

… While summer interns at the JGI from multiple programs had their own goals to achieve, they constantly collaborated with each other on new ways of presenting and researching science. …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews … more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea Du Toit, senior editor for  Nature Reviews …

… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, … traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than …

… platform — has been developed to help inform scientists and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein identified from …

… to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… supporting the DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research user community in their bioenergy and environmental … BS – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Chemical Engineering Ph. D. – … 2024 Berkeley Lab Recognition of Excellence Award 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab …

… Pictured from left: [Above] Hanin Alzubaidy, Markus Covert, Sheel C. … Joint Genome Institute (JGI) accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from scientists who translate genomic information …

… Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps … young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and …