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… (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures called galls.  In …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE … Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate … I’ll take that knowledge back with me.” Now a second-year evolutionary biology student in David Ardell’s lab, he also …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training experience funded by a DOE … on the plant microbiome. This year, however, there was a new aspect to the project - they also worked with Sharon …

… Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and … National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at …

… plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper … breeders aren’t interested in waiting decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing collaborative effort to … plant’s traits and genetic diversity,” said John Lovell, an evolutionary biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of …

… The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with … metabolites, genes, and proteins. It also enables exploration of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and … biogeochemical processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding microbiome …