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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re looking at: the role viral …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and …

…   Register here  Registration fees:  Early Bird rates available now General & Berkeley Lab Attendee – $250 … VEGA 26 will take place at the UC Berkeley MLK Building, in the … will be held on Nov. 18 in the Tilden room and open-air patio of the same building.  The symposium will include a mix …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely … sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… What if 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 … genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … genes of interest could be associated with a plant’s sex. One outcome could be superfemale plants that have increased …

… Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their survival secrets could one day help other organisms survive hotter, drier climates. …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil … Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and … at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …