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As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through … to further develop a more diverse and inclusive pool of talent for career opportunities at JGI and Berkeley Lab. …

Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from … industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated …

… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and …