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… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his … Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … a presentation on their data to a large group of DOE JGI researchers at the end of their internships, and are …

… 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 …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley … – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. …

… American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But …

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

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … early collaborations that could help crop breeders and researchers predict how crops and model organisms may … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly …

… 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.   …

… 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 …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the …