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… on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …

On September 1, JGI held a JGI Engagement: Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the CSP  New … the data and work with the data. Q: How would you include a reference or citation in a proposal? A: If you’re presenting …

Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work …

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 years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put …

… genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research scientist at … the Genomic Encyclopedia of Actinobacteria with 824 Isolate Reference Genomes. Cell Genomics 2: 100213Nayfach S et al. 2021. A …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation … convert them into energy that is then stored. A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for … carbon captured from the atmosphere in a process that generates energy. The MPI team ultimately aims to develop an …

… to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . The study’s pivotal NMR (nuclear … structure and functionality on the atomic level, was generated at JBEI and analyzed by the GLBRC. By providing …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and … in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when … with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …

… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … To ensure the gene editing tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective … , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the … and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar …