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… University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear from CSU San Marcos Professor Matt Escobar and UC Davis Associate Professor Matthias Hess, also the chair of the JGI User …

… from their summer experiences at the JGI Berkeley Lab offers a variety of programs to help inspire and train the … insights they gained from their mentors, and apply their newfound knowledge to future career paths.  To learn more … most promising. Going into the project, like, I kind of knew that my projects were experimental and definitely …

… to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More … Note that beyond quantity, input quality (i.e., presence of “intact” high-molecular weight DNA) is an important … are metagenomes sequenced? A:  For the next call ( CSP New Investigator ), up to 4 long-reads (PacBio) metagenomes …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and … great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the … giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy or biofuels. Although a member … Miscanthus is dormant during the winter and grows anew the following spring without requiring replanting. …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence …

… Retracing how the dry rot Serpula lacrymans adapted to a new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic … plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative biofuels and bioproducts. This study lends insights on how the … been less impacted by human encroachment. The team also did head-to-head, or confrontation experiments, involving these …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of antibiotics called zealexins. Even though scientists have … produced in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … The phyllosphere, which is known as the aerial surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest … the JGI here . Bennett is applying the same experiment to a new environment. She is currently working on her thesis to …

… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this role he supervises … Nottingham University, UK PhD in Genomics, University of Cambridge, UK Postdoctoral training Wellcome Trust Sanger … Price et al 2018. Mutant phenotypes for thousands of bacterial genes of unknown function. Nature 557:503-509. …