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… Since one of the challenges of developing alternative fuels from plants is the high cost and resource requirements of … Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to study … of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen microbes involved in the digestion …

… kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program …

… bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared … which is something I didn’t even know existed before. Name: Deepika Gunasekaran Class Year: 2nd year graduate student in …

… ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to … Recently, Lawrence, in collaboration with researchers from ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the … the results. Based on the type of questions and feedback from his JGI audiences, he began to understand what worked …

… and Zyiah Mikes worked with mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study … to the project - they also worked with Sharon Greenblum from the User Support Analysis team to analyze plant … they were responsible for all steps of the experiment from growing and inoculating the plants to harvesting the …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down … still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand …

… other scientific organizations. Fungal biologist Stajich from UC Riverside sees the JGI’s open application process …

… 25 years ago, the  Genomes OnLine Database has matured from six projects on a spreadsheet into a flagship  genomic … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), but also those imported from public repositories, as well as project data entered by … samples. The database aggregates relevant metadata from various sources and applies a standardized labeling …

… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the … were two undergraduate students and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez …

… later on in the spring. In this episode, hear proposal tips from Tanja Woyke, who runs user programs at the JGI, and …

… Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …