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… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … their research of these newly found methanogens  in diverse ecosystems with  support from a DOE Established Program to …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… for you here today. We got the opportunity to talk to one of the real legends of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer of marine natural products, …

Arianna is an affiliate research who explores the effect of aquatic protistan taxonomy and genetic diversity on physiology and ecosystem functioning through a combination of transcriptomic, metatranscriptomic, and …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new analysis takes a  genomic look …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference … genome is cited in roughly 10% of all since-released publications on green algae. “The Chlamy genome launched …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of the flora, fire moss …

… group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course. …

JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP is a summer professional …

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, …