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… 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 … bogs have two distinct zones: Hummocks and hollows flow like hills and valleys, on a smaller scale. Depending on the …

… July 30 will be included in the next review. “So webinars like this didn’t really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … as “an unparalleled model system for ecological and evolutionary genomics .” Understanding the nature and … and its productivity and decomposition rates. Peatlands, like other wetlands, can act as a carbon sink or carbon …

… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … The webinar featured  Trent Northen and Ben Bowen of the  JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny … to directly measure environmental or biological samples (like cell media or lake water) without doing a metabolite …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the … also, so that the reusable stuff that’s very expensive, like lab equipment and ergonomic equipment – all of that is … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of viruses …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated … transcription of gene sets associated with functions like stress responses and cellular differentiation. The …

… . The Science Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex … purified to produce alternative biofuels. A C4 plant like sorghum and maize, sugarcane can grow on …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … Plant Program Lead at the JGI. Sarah:  Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant genetics/genomics? … allowed us to pinpoint and rank biologically relevant and evolutionarily conserved genes that could be potential …

… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Methodologies workshops. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prizewinning team at the Supercomputing …