Search

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical … Mike Wilkins and his graduate student Kaela Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and …

… in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from … State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource … Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who … through the Biotech Partners program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates and …

Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much … Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)  proposed … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Los Alamos National … sequence and then analyze the genomes and multi-omics datasets for algae that can be used for large-scale …

JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI … experience in molecular biology and plant functional genomics, because this work is essential for improving crop …

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.       …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone … student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. The Impact Stable …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …