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… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …

… joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging questions existing in biology. He holds joint appointments as a … of a rare form of human epilepsy and subsequently generated one of the first mouse models for this common neurological …

… zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression patterns in the  Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  … by neighboring cells in these processes.   One of the study’s co-authors is  Benjamin Cole , a research scientist …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This … what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a group of plants in the Agave family with …

… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. … an artificial environment. It is particularly helpful for studying physiological and biochemical processes driving the …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems … the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes … floor. Alicia Purcell of Northern Arizona University is studying microbial metabolism in the Antarctic Peninsula. …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … research, written skill, above all else, determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute …

Edward Lu and mentor Miguel Romero Sean Saki and mentors  Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Sivagunalan Thamilarasan and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Feng Yu and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors …

Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … plant biologist at West Virginia University (WVU), led the study’s international team, which included scientists from …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought invaluable insights, thoughts, and explorations that has led to groundbreaking science and opportunities …