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This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With … work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National … wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their … and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine … The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community …

Learn more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative …

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

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

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, …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …