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… 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, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … added, and shattering genes may be specific to species or groups of species.  The genome data also revealed that green … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching … at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences, among the interns … summer, they worked with Zhong Wang’s and Tanja Woyke’s groups, respectively. Each of the interns spoke briefly …

… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity toward innovative biotechnological and industrial …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 … Doudna.  Jennifer Doudna , UC Berkeley “We soon realized that we had a powerful tool.” Keynote Talk Title: … are getting a better idea of how these tiny interactions shape  carbon cycling in the ocean.   “So very interesting …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … first publicly available, river-focused microbial resource that provides information at multiple scales from genes to …