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… Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the University of Oslo, Aaron … approved CSP New Investigator proposal to understand the genetic basis of fungal community assembly on dead wood …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome … also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles … surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on … Robert Bowers . She contributed to the analysis of mobile genetic elements across all of the metagenomes. Learn more …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  … infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest … more productive cacao plants and ensure there will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow In 2010, a draft first genome of  …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it … down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is …