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… To understand how organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund study organisms living in hot springs. Hear how their recent work …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ … bacterial group in the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he …

… database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in … recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a … sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate …

… The JGI’s Genomes OnLine Database celebrates 25 years as a vital … 25 years ago, the  Genomes OnLine Database has matured from six projects on a spreadsheet into a flagship  genomic … and enabling large-scale comparative genomics analysis initiatives. GOLD not only curates sequencing projects …

… To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial …

… improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids … – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific …