Search

… Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

… led the development of an integrated platform for tracking JGI's sequencing projects and data warehousing. This platform streamlines project management, laboratory information tracking, and enables efficient analysis … their status. Mr. Shahab has extensive experience in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), bioinformatics, …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in … cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not … like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever …

… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of … Data analysis Q:  What types of analysis support does JGI provide for DNA modification detection? A:  DNA … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy …

… As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise multiple organisms: a coral host, a photosynthetic microalgae, and a little-characterized … corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help them take the heat. …

… alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his … was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the … a presentation on their data to a large group of DOE JGI researchers at the end of their internships, and are …

… 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.  …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and … – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work … This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab …

… ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a … diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the plant’s varying traits — height, biomass, …

… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a … 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 climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …