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… The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of … data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations … Biological Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (Bio-SANS) instrument available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Center …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through … Science Program (CSP) proposal, and Rambo’s research builds on that. “The purpose of this CSP is to better …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed …

… The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from …

… This shorter 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 …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila … Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a …

… 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,  … to terrestrial plants showcases how early plants built upon an ancient genetic framework to thrive outside …

… The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place January 12-16, 2019, in San Diego, Calif. Representatives from the DOE Joint … will be co-located at Berkeley Lab’s Integrative Genomics Building (IGB). Click here to learn more about this move. …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to … America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

… MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are 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 …

… Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was … working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed … funded through the CSP program. In addition to continuing to develop strategies for plant genome sequencing, he …