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Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring … activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these experiments easier for scientists everywhere. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s … that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha …

And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out … Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between … as a biofuel feedstock. Public accessibility to the data made available through this multidisciplinary approach … in mediating these processes. By harnessing the data made available through this multidisciplinary approach, …

JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences … the total reagent cost. While Biotin DAP-seq can be used by itself, it can also serve as a stepping stone to studying …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel … encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint … into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular … complexity and microbial symbiosis.  This is a continuation of the previous NeLLi Symposia. In this 2025 …

Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their schedules … on isolating and cultivating and sequencing extremophile protists from a hypersaline alkaline lake in California. …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management … challenges for collecting these soil samples, the students made coring devices, then planned and collected from 4 sites … The class discovered Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, and Proteobacteria to be the most common phyla of bacteria …