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… Michelle O’Malley and Tom Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery … head and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel production. …

… Hear how their recent work revealed more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way of moving: a tail-like flagella.  …

… could help us grow better crops, with less impact on our planet. …

… crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… Since 2012, Mr. Shahab has led the development of an integrated platform for tracking JGI's sequencing projects and data warehousing. This … tracking, and enables efficient analysis and reporting of sequencing projects and their status. Mr. Shahab has … BS in Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia; MS in Computer Science, …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from … In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this …

… using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… 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, researchers take a look at …

… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the …

… be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …