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Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, … using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

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

New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the … to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

…   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 … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave …

In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant …

The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video … (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …