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… compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course. …

American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious …

… (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are …

… and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious and resource intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has been developing and applying new genomics capabilities that …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in … Program makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes …

… highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, … the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and to …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel … to facilitate sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, …

… the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and practices that affect … of the JGI Annual Meeting. Any investigator who has been an active user of the JGI at any time in the past two …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost … has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant … It’s that third component, lignin, that has historically been less of a resource to be extracted and more of an …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! …