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When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van … around the planet–through techniques including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science … eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was … Program (CSP 502951, 2016, Population and evolutionary genomics of host–microbiome interactions in Zostera marina …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has … Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their … Science User Facility, has been developing and applying new genomics capabilities that address these issues. Check the …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 … is the interim director of Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for …

Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea … known methanogens. With the help of this information, the researchers found evolutionary relationships between … enzymes.” Gribaldo will be speaking on “Exploration of Metagenomic Data to Understand the Diversity and Evolution of …

… joined the Lab in 2007 as the Sr. Human Resources Division Partner for the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and in … (JGI). Tina serves in an HR advisory role to Division/Area management and supervisors to recommend solutions and appropriate actions on diverse HR related matters. …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix … (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next … understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers investigated the structures of the sex …

… number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand … standards.  A year later, her team used proteomics, genomics and transcriptomics to discover another advantage …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … plant growth hormones. One other tidbit that caught the researchers’ attention is that the poplar cuttings had …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid … collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  …