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… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE … funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah … the plants and extracting DNA. They also analyzed 16s amplicon data to determine microbiome composition. This …

… study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, … its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time … scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the ancestor to eelgrass underwent a …

… Switchgrass is a native, shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the … Plants . Since 2007, the JGI has been working on identifying switchgrass genes related to biomass production, …

… The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring generalizable technologies to …

… uncultured in laboratories. Other firsts followed. The next year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished … deep-sea, oil-eating bacterium from a single cell. Several years later, the continuing single cell sequencing … JGI’s single cell genomics capabilities to assemble, identify, and characterize more than 200 microbial genomes that …

… bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it comes to nutrient cycling in polar … was separated from the Southern Ocean roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for … Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A …

… Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes contribution of scholarship … as the interim deputy for JGI User Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the American Academy of …