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… some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their … biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — …

… exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that [DNA Synthesis Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave back …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his …

… and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and development in actinomycetes. He is …

Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, with some artistic endeavors along the way. …

Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? This session will demonstrate to students (and their mentors) how to begin … for students through the Department of Energy-funded National Labs, User Facilities and Programs, and introduce …

… food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come … microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers … studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still …

… in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced … in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … Research Scientific Computing Center, the Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Light Source, future collaborative … projects were also intensively discussed. The Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology (BSISB) Program for the …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The … in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – …

… some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called … time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more proteins requiring zinc than non-polar algae. They … sp. YARC, which also contains expanded genes for proteins requiring zinc. Co-expression analysis as well as …