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… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his … Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … a presentation on their data to a large group of DOE JGI researchers at the end of their internships, and are …

… Interns contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab … a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This year, the 12th JGI-UC Merced cohort consisted of three undergraduate … writing while also making new connections with both researchers and other interns. At the end of the summer, …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley … – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. …

… American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But …

… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Biosciences Area Entrepreneurship Program presents… Eyes on the Prize – Launching & Sustaining Startups in Synthetic … 29th, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Panel discussion, Q&A followed by: 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm: Hosted Hoppy Hour @ … Creek Featuring a casual, candid, C-level panel discussion with local industry leaders: Arvind Gupta , Managing …

… The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal … thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto … and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … deciphering their internal molecular mechanisms can help researchers better model global carbon and nitrogen cycling. … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and …