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… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of … in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon … other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function …

… Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining … large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the …

… Since 2012, Mr. Shahab has led the development of an integrated platform for tracking JGI's sequencing projects and data … BS in Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia; MS in Computer Science, … Education …

… For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … all of you have seen that in Ray and it has been especially called on in the move to the new building where that was …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research … in professional development enrichment activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages …

… For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … of Polintoviruses Josue Duque and mentor Miguel Romero, Classification and Analysis of Eukaryotic MAGs from Novel … the level of photosynthesis in a model green alga called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We’re using an attentive …

… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … The work (proposal: https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60001084 and … at CIRAD was supported by the International Consortium for Sugarcane Biotechnology. The work at the Institute of …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving … addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … This work was supported through a USDA NIFA award (2021-67019-34608) to …