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… the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and …

Gary Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. …

Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how … Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the Joint BioEnergy …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings … from academia, industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive …

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

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

The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place January 12-16, 2019, in San … a list of talks relevant to JGI science at PAG XXVII. On January 14, JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz and  KBase Co-PI Bob Cottingham host a  workshop on DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Plant …

The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …