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This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress … to thrive outside aquatic environments. The Impact A deeper understanding of how plants adapted to terrestrial …

… of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write … papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State …

Community Science Program gives researchers access to all kinds of sequencing, ‘omics and bioinformatics capabilities — and it’s open … later on in the spring. In this episode, hear proposal tips from Tanja Woyke, who runs user programs at the JGI, and …

… proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches …

… and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious and resource intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight … genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, …

The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving … other technological advancements that facilitate the shift from uncovering microbial novelties to deciphering metabolic …

In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less … Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into other crops.  One grass they studied just …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences … flash talks, and instructive workshops. Researchers from academia, government, and industry, are invited. Check …