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The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re … who have uncovered remarkable genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and materials. …

Emily St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how …

December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for … proposals: Collaborate With a U.S. DOE User Facility: Learn About Available Expertise and Resources, Open-Call … “Putting microorganisms on the map: continental-scale context for thousands of newly sampled microbial genomes from …

… team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has discovered that the candidate bioenergy … to address long-standing evolutionary ecological hypotheses about how C4 perennial grasses like switchgrass respond to …

… tap into the diverse talent that UC Merced has is tremendous for us, and we are very grateful for this opportunity.” … to seeing this internship program continue and I’m excited about what it will bring to the future of JGI, UC Merced and …

… between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students … at UC Merced. Cristhian and Bryan both spoke briefly about their internship experiences at the DOE JGI – revisit … . Additionally, Bryan was featuring in a video about the importance of mentoring with Tanja Woyke and her …

… of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used this set of guide RNAs on  Yarrowia lipolytica to … furthers the U.S. Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the approach they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … genes from isolates, there isn’t much scientists can tell about its function or its origin. As a result, these genes … The study took roughly two years to complete, with only about 20,000 metagenomes sequenced at the time. Now, that …

… the Biosciences Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accountability (IDEA) Chairs Council.   … 2020-2021, UC Women’s Initiative (North Cohort) UC Managing … Member, Capitol Science Communicators … Education … About the JGI Manager of Communications & Outreach … Awards …

… novel technique to access high-quality genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual … Other firsts followed. The next year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from … microbial genomes that were mapped to nearly 30 major previously uncharted branches of the tree of life. Used in tandem …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …