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… What if 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 … of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently …

…  Learn about meetings the JGI is hosting:   … Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA)  … The JGI is represented at conferences year round; find out where our researchers …

… past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department … Intern: Sidharth Babu (undergraduate) Mentor: Zhong Wang Click the image to watch the video … Intern: Brendan Blasius (undergraduate) Mentor: Guohong "Albert" Wu Click the image to watch …

… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from UC Merced recently had summer internships …   “It is a beautiful thing, that our young campus earned 25% of the research awards,” said Jesús Cisneros, director …

… 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 — …

… WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing unit … high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility … facility, aims to explore applications in the life sciences that can be ported to the GPU architecture. A GPU hackathon …

… ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full … in adaptations seen in later plant lineages. The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery that turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a …