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… Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps …

… A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey at Duke University and … a foundational data set that is now available through a new  single-cell data viewer that was collaboratively … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… restoring and maintaining healthy soils – are at the heart of sustaining food and bioenergy security for a steadily … (Berkeley Lab), to help drive discoveries that will render new economic advantages for farmers concerned with improving sustainable soil … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … mechanisms of sex determination could also lead to new approaches to accelerate flowering, which can speed the … some songbird W chromosomes — suggest that they are advantageous enough to have evolved multiple times independently. …

…   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid … capability for Auxenochlorella means engineers can produce new bioproducts in a more predictable and reliable manner. …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of …

… the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this annual gathering of leaders from diverse disciplines to highlight how they … DNA sequencing, synthesis, metabolomics, data analysis, and new technology developments – that the JGI offers through …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI … His group also handles the Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline  that reveals in situ functional … molecular protocols.  Finally, his team utilizes new technologies, e.g. acoustic liquid transfer and …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of … installed at the  Integrative Genomics Building , JGI’s newly-built home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab … stuff accumulated in offices, labs, lockers, and other storage spaces in Walnut Creek and deciding on what was …

… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, … associated genes are great resources for bioremediation, new agricultural applications or life-saving drugs. A better … for 35 species representing all major evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life. Ultimately, the …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … plants, based on shared genetic traits and evolutionary lineage. They provide a unique window into the adaptations that … and nutrient scarcity, suggesting the evolutionary lineage leading to land plants is more complex than previously …