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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 wasps that program oak trees to … In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's …

My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic … with the JGI data use policy. “I felt it is important to acknowledge the significant efforts to collect and … hope JGI and other institutions continue to do this kind of projects.” The work also used resources of the  National …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … rates than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the cell-free system is that the cells are no …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by … and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, …