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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 freshwater ecosystem works. … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together. The next 3 episodes are the …
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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage The … decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat bogs also serve the … theorized that sex determination was possibly driven by genetics, or even temperature. By sequencing the genome, …
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Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission … synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This … has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology …
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Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ … isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these …
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