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Natural Prodcast is a “fireside chat”-style podcast about natural products and the science and … species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to medicine, the environment, and human …

Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion … event of the Integrative Genomics Building—the new home of the JGI and KBase in the heart of the Lab’s 200-acre … including the Advanced Light Source, the Molecular Foundry, NERSC and ESnet, as well as externally to prospective …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant … plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of … as well as degradation products that accumulated as the fungus did its work.  The UC Santa Barbara team worked with …

… chromosomes of  Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene expression as it grows back vigorously year after year (perenniality). The … are following up on these discoveries to develop new varieties of  Miscanthus as a source of renewable bioenergy. …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to study microorganisms that can’t be cultured …

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

… more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long history of dynamic evolution … of ferns alive today. Boasting adaptations in order to protect themselves from environmental stresses, ferns’ … with raw genetic materials and increased genome complexity, made sense. The problem with that theory was that the …

The Joint Genome Institute's DNA Synthesis Platform capabilities … assessments. This is done by synthesizing genes, pathways, and whole chromosomes for bioenergy, nutrient …

… 3, 2021, the JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through … up to two student participants from the faculty member’s home academic institution, one of which may be a graduate …