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… at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in …

… design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at Brookhaven … National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of … are interested in learning how these microbes have learned to adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying … on understanding the genomic variation in haloarchaea across East Antarctica. The implications of the current …

… After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her … University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … Program Head as well as our Deputy of User Programs. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing … showed that the composition of the community was similar across sequencing approaches, that species specific sets of …

… 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 as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear …

… employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are … The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … is known about the impacts of these infections on ecosystem functions. As part of efforts to characterize global …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … At HudsonAlpha, she has continued to contribute across JGI plant genomes. She has appeared on the annual …

… Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range. … A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for … team surveying the genomic and phenotypic diversity across the natural range of switchgrass found that …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the … contributions, is key to understanding their ecosystem functions in processes ranging from nutrient cycling to … been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this …

… [Pictured from left to right are: [Above] Sara Branco, Asdrubal Burgos, Posy … Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and … accelerates bioenergy innovation through genomic discovery across diverse organisms and ecosystems. Scientists are …