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… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … UDE familiarized themselves with the research programs and user facilities at Berkeley Lab. Commenting on the visit, …

… in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s research is focused on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was … approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in … … Cataloging Lineage Specific Conserved Genes in Giant Viruses … Pan-genome Graphs: Approaches for Complete …

… the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching … the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s … second year of the DOE JGI/University of California, Merced Genomics Distinguished Graduate Internship Program, Susannah …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … essential to understanding how these plant pathogens cause disease and how to control them. Despite advances in the … large-scale “citizen science” project to generate real-time data for modeling and predicting the spread of a plant …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance … 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human …

… plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy … crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …