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Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be … researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …

… a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and … Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

… final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … (Berkeley Lab). They were selected through peer review from 41 full proposals out of 50 letters of intent … in the Antarctic Peninsula. Additionally, the proposal from Viola Krukenberg at Montana State University …

… mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & … data. IMG/M is a web-based platform that provides access to the wealth of public microbiome sequence data and enables … data with existing bioinformatic methods to bridge the gap from sequence to biology. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just 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.  …

… proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics … leverage the JGI’s DNA synthesis and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function.  Below …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's … been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the … genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and … were two undergraduate students and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez …

… papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State … Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …