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… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its … Note: Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley …
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… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how … Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the Joint BioEnergy …
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… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative, … three strains of Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published May 2024 in Nature Genetics by an international research …
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… The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place January 12-16, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from … a list of talks relevant to JGI science at PAG XXVII. On January 14, JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz and …
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… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at … America: guayule. This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. …
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… bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah Bagby (Case Western Reserve University) and Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire. …
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… working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the pipelines for directed finishing and co-led … 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and improvement …
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… State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes. …
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… The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal … and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment. …
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… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary . Over the next few … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help …
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… The BioSANS instrument is at the Center for Structural Molecular Biology (CSMB) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. On March 2, 2021, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …
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… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” a … (green). (From Haridas S et al. Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using whole genome data from newly sequenced genomes, …
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