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We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces … and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can … catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible … multiple teams and analyses. This episode, Rex Malmstrom (JGI), and Roli Wilhelm (Purdue University), share a few …

My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes … and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness …

… spectrometry-centered projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and integrating mathematics and … impactful scientific discoveries, supporting the DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research user community …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and …

This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 …

Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots … researchers and robots have made these experiments easier for scientists everywhere. …

… could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a full genome sequence, … have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear …

They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their survival secrets could one day help … are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

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 … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …