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… plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the … everyday activities, striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into … now IGB-wide ZERO Waste Initiative began its most ambitious project yet: a special recycling program to recycle lab …

… As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with … proposal calls to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Simpson assembled a team of researchers working in this SIP space to formalize metadata reporting and data labeling for …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … i.e. in January. She talked about her  Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … break down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. Applying genome sequencing and analysis, the researchers identified … to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team …