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Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … fungi. By growing extracts without oxygen in ruminant fluid — which smells terrible —they were able to isolate four …

Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one way or another, they’ve all …

We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. But some hungry insects can digest plastic. So researchers are taking a look …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … with a reasonably accessible system,” said Schmutz. “Building the pan-genome and accessions allow us to see …

Bob uses single-cell genomics and metagenomics to explore how microbes influence people and the environment. This includes studying the diversity, physiology and community ecology of …

… (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are …

Petra is an affiliate researcher who cultivates marine algae infected by giant viruses from subtropical, … gyres. She uses genomic and transcriptomic sequencing along with laboratory manipulations to understand how nutrient stress impacts virus-host …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are …

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s … the human genome was thought to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources to sequence it,” …

Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this annual gathering of … M. Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University N. Louise Glass, UC Berkeley Ian Foster, Argonne National …