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… Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles that viruses play in their ecosystems, …

… yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their … work and how healthy they are, a recent data set  outlined in  Scientific Data connects molecular features to large … ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE …

… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into …

… and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  … B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa …

… gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

… we understood plants and how they adapt 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 …

… fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… 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, we’ve covered … is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …