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Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal … State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource … Associate Professor Matthias Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from …

… from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in … year and continue working on their research project! The JGI-UC Merced internship program was founded in 2014 with …

… well as a recent discovery that turns scientific presumption on its head and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel production. …

… in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their roots, creating a lively zone called the rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.       …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley … let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. … visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course. …

… for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists who have uncovered remarkable … genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and materials. …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort …

When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …