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… gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are …

… fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at …

… 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 for …

… common set of metadata. For Steve Wilson, JGI’s Systems Engineering group lead, the Data Portal reflects a structural shift … of our search API. They have expressed an interest in using this to find files based on file metadata criteria. Wilson … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha …

… St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial … SIP data that can be useful to multiple teams and analyses. This episode, Rex Malmstrom (JGI), and Roli Wilhelm (Purdue …

… professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and … participants in state-of-the-art analytical methods in this area, by means of theoretical lectures and seminars as …