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You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown … water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 … ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy … for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has been developing and applying new genomics capabilities …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and … , one of DOE’s highest honors! Tringe, a microbiologist, was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial assemblies, revealing the roles of …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … those two cell types [of two different organisms] are interacting with each other, without all the noise or other … the fungi side, underground mycorrhizal networks can serve as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match characteristics — … These enzymes are crucial for creating nucleic acids and proteins, as well as recycling nitrogen. Now, with insight …

Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary … make use of JGI’s breadth of capabilities while also highlighting collaborative research of a scale exceeding a …

… 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation … activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first internship experience, while others further …

From left to right: [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, Sneha Couvillion, Tobin Hammer, … Ren, Allison Rober, Neal Scott, Chikae Tatsumi, Vojtech Tlaskal, Fernando Torralbo, Luis Felipe Valdez-Nuñez  The JGI …

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 great …