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Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For the … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … all of you have seen that in Ray and it has been especially called on in the move to the new building where that was …

… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … They also took part in many enriching workshops and networked with fellow interns and scientists alike. Want to … the roots of a plant in the soil. And I’m specifically working with a grass plant that’s similar to wheat and …

Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to …

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 …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass … Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, … varying traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … approved CSP New Investigator proposal to understand the genetic basis of fungal community assembly on dead wood … Bioenergy Research Center. Her research focus is genetically engineering the plant cell wall to address dairy …

… spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … unlike bacteria, they often carry interrupting sequences, called introns. Introns are like having extra words squished …

… the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this annual gathering of leaders … developments – that the JGI offers through proposal calls on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis to the worldwide …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. … discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon … Cole explain their research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …

We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it …

… mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns … made me explore every single possibility. And also specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the …

In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on … April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area …