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Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila … Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from …

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

The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of … Biological Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (Bio-SANS) instrument available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Center … product, you can read more and download the protocol and guidelines. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through … Science Program (CSP) proposal, and Rambo’s research builds on that. “The purpose of this CSP is to better …

This shorter 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 …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila … Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place January 12-16, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from the DOE Joint … will be co-located at Berkeley Lab’s Integrative Genomics Building (IGB). Click here to learn more about this move. …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … to terrestrial plants showcases how early plants built upon an ancient genetic framework to thrive outside …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write … State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back … working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed … funded through the CSP program. In addition to continuing to develop strategies for plant genome sequencing, he …