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… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways …

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

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to … crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ 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 … specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly … is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of …

… The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and …

… JGI researchers demonstrate how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational … Mi Yan, Deanna Beatty)    Vision  Lead AI-driven genomic innovation to advance biotechnology. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the …