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… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems … the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes … floor. Alicia Purcell of Northern Arizona University is studying microbial metabolism in the Antarctic Peninsula. …

… zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression patterns in the  Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  … by neighboring cells in these processes.   One of the study’s co-authors is  Benjamin Cole , a research scientist …

… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. … an artificial environment. It is particularly helpful for studying physiological and biochemical processes driving the …

… joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging questions existing in biology. He holds joint appointments as a … of a rare form of human epilepsy and subsequently generated one of the first mouse models for this common neurological …

… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought invaluable insights, thoughts, and explorations that has led to groundbreaking science and opportunities …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the … Plant Sale. All year, the JGI helps support finding solutions to clean energy and environmental challenges. And many JGIers work to connect those …

… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its … Note: Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … research, written skill, above all else, determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute …

… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The accepted proposals come … who have not previously been a principal investigator (PI) on an approved JGI proposal. Approved proposals make use of …

… private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites and synthetic biology. Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research … Nigel Mouncey is the Secondary Metabolites Program head as well as our JGI Director. …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …