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As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  … to further develop a more diverse and inclusive pool of talent for career opportunities at JGI and Berkeley Lab. …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock … using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how …

… summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching … and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez are both  California Alliance for Minority …

… but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author … Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key … Tag along with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2.      …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a … to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an … to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … concentrations of the essential trace metal zinc, compared to other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … to large and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the size of what has typically …