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… are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the …

… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …

… 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 to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into …

… has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … dataset was particularly important for characterizing fungal genes, because, unlike bacteria, they often carry … these distractions. Combining genome and transcriptome information allowed the team to have a much more comprehensive …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI … graduate student Mentors: Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, Fungal and Algal Program What effect has your summer …

June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is addressed to students and … research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and …

… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our … standards.  A year later, her team used proteomics, genomics and transcriptomics to discover another advantage … for anaerobic fungi . Eventually, it’s possible that fungal communities — or enzymes from fungal communities — …

… research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao Ma. And Karen Serrano and …

Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes …