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… and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of … work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Due to the ongoing pandemic, Woyke will receive the prize at a … dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques …

… over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. …

… (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE … launch a pilot project and begin the work of understanding how engineered environments contribute to greenhouse gases,” … metabolism, work on which she will expand with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. …

Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab … projects. In one way or another, they’ve all mentioned how invaluable their time at the JGI was and how great it was to have an experienced career scientist as …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their … of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a century-and-a-half of lichen research, … grayi, and the microalga,  Asterochloris glomerata . To see how gene expression changes when living together versus …

… “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In 2019, the countdown has begun to the June …

We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. But some hungry insects can digest plastic. So researchers are taking a look at how these critters process plastic, to improve plastic …