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… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable …

… less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir … from grasses into other crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup …

… (thermophilic) microbes are of interest for their potential use in number of biotechnological applications. Molecular … into the evolution of life on Earth. For decades, longtime JGI collaborator Bill Inskeep of Montana State University … and his colleagues to name the archaeal lineage for the planet Mars. To help determine where Marsarchaeota might …

… Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle …

… in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 …

… Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments …

… which affects a number of environments, including plants, soil, and the gut. To better understand the dynamics … cyclic di-GMP in bacteria through work enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) . The Impact Cyclic … bacterial interactions with animals and plants, or cause metal corrosion in oil pipes. Scientists have tried to …

… organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running smaller …