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This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on …

In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir …

Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics technologies, keen interest in the bioenergy and … of the wider genomics community. Jan. 13 workshop: BER Plant Genomic Science In this workshop, we will present …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next …

What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your … and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on …

… among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for demonstrating “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the … hosted two JGI Engagement Webinars promoting the JGI fungal data portal MycoCosm and the algal portal PhycoCosm. …

Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions of plants with their associated microbiomes. Tringe was also … computational biologist Dylan Chivian and other KBase team members at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. “Collaborating …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green …

… develop presentation skills as well as build their network in the field of genomics and scientific research. The topics … students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize …

… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. … could be generating these observed patterns. As many other plant species have natural cytotype variation, we also hoped …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent … Impact on Microbial Root … Cross Species Comparison of Plant Single-cell Transcriptomes of Rice and Arabidopsis Roots … Making Big Data Metagenomic Clustering Scalable … …