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… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass …

… Gary Trubl is finishing his PhD in Microbiology at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Drs. Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research …

… A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements …

… in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, … in not only their work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments …

… Though a partnership with Biotech Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, … academic and professional development experiences that increase participation in higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School this …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in …

… They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their … organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel … dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — …