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… Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest … Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s …

… Click the cards below to view downloadable pdfs of previous Progress Reports from the Joint Genome Institute.  …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, …

… Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing … better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the … cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than a decade.  …

… 4 of the Fisabio Summer School.  The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical … fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and research results in genomics, metagenomics and the … system, presented by Rekha Seshadri and Mateus Fiamenghi from the Microbiome Data Science group. …

… will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student … program , which awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE …