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… Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund study organisms living in hot springs. Hear how their recent work revealed more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way of moving: a tail-like …

… This single environmental trigger highlights efficiency for users … chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … the Lab as well.  One of the 2015 program alumnus Cristhian Gutierrez discussed how his time as an undergraduate intern …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … a PhD student named Brian Wolff. He was looking at the invertebrate communities upstream and downstream, which is how … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of livestock were more capable than presumed. After …

… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … from previously understudied clades, establishing their evolutionary relationships and leading to the discovery of …

… DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … faculty positions with the SNS, and Wang’s group was hosting another QSB graduate student, Travis Lawrence. … I’ll take that knowledge back with me.” Now a second-year evolutionary biology student in David Ardell’s lab, he also …

… The JGI Engagement Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions … (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … The webinar featured  Trent Northen and Ben Bowen of the  JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny …

… the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) co-hosted a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single … just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes …