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…   The JGI is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These … research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped by dam removal to Antarctica’s … contribute to global biogeochemical cycles. Additional efforts in metabolic engineering and biocatalyst design will …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the …

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

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn …

Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and really open to talking … have done the groundbreaking work you’ve been reading about for years! And you can ask them about it! And they’re super …

… of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? … an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida … provides the only known reference microbiome data sets for the Loxahatchee Refuge,  was published in the journal  … sure we could even complete a full project. Every other group I contacted was happy to offer advice but declined to …

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.  So a few years ago, when …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial … genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education …

… the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate … in professional development enrichment activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first … career enjoyed the chance to develop new skills needed for their PhD research. And for the first time in this …