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… students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final … I was so impressed with the work everyone has done.” The 2020 JGI-UC Merced interns and mentor/s: Brendan Blasius & …

All staff members of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence Berkeley … technology (IT) activities and strategic plan. … The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs. The committee serves as …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back … Institute and the collaborative projects funded through the CSP program. In addition to continuing to develop strategies … switchgrass. Nature 590: 438-444. Mamidi, S et al. 2020. A genome resource for green millet Setaria viridis …

… for another episode of Natural Prodcast. Right now I’m working on this the afternoon of the day I’m due to release it, … to predict or just understand better the language of microbial cell-cell communication. And he told us about his … DAN: Almost like you know that there is. AARON PURI: It’s a planted question Dan. Yeah. So overall I think what we’re …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, … at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a fully …

… and PPRD could help with understanding gene functional roles, but the experimental inconsistency makes … to standardize the experimental protocols. Then, in 2020, seven more groups joined the project to contribute to … keep updating the Gene Atlas with curated datasets from CSP projects and aim to improve plant gene function …

Community Science Program gives researchers access to all kinds of sequencing, ‘omics and bioinformatics capabilities — and it’s open … project manager Miranda Harmon-Smith, who helps shepherd CSP projects along. …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … the special, natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. … right. So I did a PhD in microbiology at MIT, and I studied microbial ecology. I studied Vibrio species in the ocean, so …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single … which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And eventually, their findings could help …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … to increase fruit and flower size, and confer stress tolerance traits. Given the importance of polyploidy in …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about … and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, archaea, they all have …

Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our group also … To provide additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to …