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…   On November 3, 2021, the JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the … world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using team science to do it.   …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint … works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink. Summary As global temperatures …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of … program , which awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions …

… researcher who identifies and analyzes novel clades of RNA viruses and determines novel viral gene functions that may …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging … joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and …

… the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Prior to this role, she served as the primary storyteller and social media manager for the JGI. She produced both text-based and multimedia … in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold … in the world combined. Harvesting peat for energy has been increasingly discouraged due to associated greenhouse gas …