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…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ 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 biologist at Texas A&M …

… Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from … industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly … In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every …

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

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in …

… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  … before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. … and analysis. This way, JGI users — both primary, data-generating users, as well as secondary, data-downloading …

… 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 … and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

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