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Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 509. Stop by and chat with representatives from KBase and the JGI … your plant genomics research. Click here to download a list of talks relevant to JGI science at PAG XXVII. On January …

Arianna is an affiliate research who explores the effect of aquatic protistan taxonomy and genetic diversity on … and ecosystem functioning through a combination of transcriptomic, metatranscriptomic, and metagenomic approaches. …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging … Comm 15:3167. Hammack AT, Blaby-Haas CE. (2024) Machine learning sheds light on microbial dark proteins. Nature Rev …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science … Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Polymorphisms Created by Transposable Elements … Evolution of the Mitochondria …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and … group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough … plant fibers. But are they both actually doing the job? By analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a … specific catches. A similar technique has been developed by researchers led by Tanja Woyke at the U.S. Department of …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by then-graduate student Cory Schwartz and his advisor Ian …

Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum … ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a … diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, …