Search

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! … publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 Nature paper announcing a high-quality reference …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … are open, it’s the same pore in the leaf through which carbon dioxide enters the leaf for photosynthesis.  ALISON:  … light and air — in particular, the part of the air that’s carbon dioxide. KAROLINA: When plants get really hot or dry, …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, … (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our … challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions … complexes that work like assembly lines for efficiency.  In 2021, her team saw that four strains of anaerobic fungi …

… On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences … Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single … (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: Q(uestion): Who can apply for …