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… within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and … podcast minisode. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome … that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using microbial understanding to formulate a …

… the delicate marine food web and change the oceans as we know them. At the base of marine food webs are microscopic … organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary … throwing these polar communities into jeopardy. “We know so little about these algal communities; they could have …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW … Dent, and I’ll be attending Alabama A&M University this fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career … intern has been just the accessibility to an abundance of knowledge. There’s so many scientists here that are willing …

… the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) have been recognized for outstanding achievements in science, technology, and … Science user facilities. The HPCwire Editors Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences went to the Berkeley … assembly of environmental microbiomes.” JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer  Kjiersten Fagnan touted the long-standing …

… manage the growth, yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to … thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt levels … of the environment. ( The annotated algal genome is available on the JGI’s PhycoCosm data portal.) This research …

… samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore … training in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of …

… 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. Within those samples, this study also tracks … genomes and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. Additionally, these fungi play a …

… plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper … and also at the same time, take advantage of what we can do now with genomics to really make inroads into plant biology … high quality reference genome sequence of switchgrass is available on the JGI plant data portal  Phytozome . This …