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… Diatoms, a group of tiny algae, are also known as “living opals” because of the strange, beautiful properties of their silica shells. …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, …

… UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto Nuevo is, historically, a fishing … much to learn, I certainly feel much more advanced in my understandings than I would be at this stage without the …

… There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

… Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more … Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, … soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at …

… Since 2012, Mr. Shahab has led the development of an … 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, …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options …

… 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 …

… and outreach efforts, the team aims to broaden awareness of and access to JGI public resources and the DOE mission, as well as help cultivate the … and collaborators.  Ms. Ballon is a molecular biology-trained science communicator with extensive experience shaping …