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Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a …

The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal … thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto … and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and … by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1011101 to E.S. and J.M.L. … Fungus Genome on MycoCosm data …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when …

Register here Book your stay at the conference venue This inaugural event will bring together researchers across major ecosystems and disciplines who are … and applying laboratory ecosystems to help transition microbiome science from largely observational to …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how … Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a … research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

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… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software … of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination and Golden Gate methods SynTrack and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …

Biosciences Area Entrepreneurship Program presents… Eyes on the Prize – Launching & Sustaining Startups in Synthetic … 29th, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Panel discussion, Q&A followed by: 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm: Hosted Hoppy Hour @ … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative … to the resources and disciplines advanced by the JGI, we seek to inspire more students to enter the science, …