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… beautiful properties of their silica shells. But what genes are responsible for such mesmerizing exteriors? …

… contains about 6% of the human genome . They discovered genes linked to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, … about 2% of the human genome. They were interested in genes involved in repair of DNA damage, and those associated … 3% of the human genome. They wanted to learn about the genes implicated in the development of breast and prostate …

… they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …

… of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … biodiversity. Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, their study assesses … the estimated diversity of Bacteria and Archaea With phylogenetic diversity standing in as a representative measure of …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab …

… and downstream, which is how the EPA, it’s one of the indices they use for stream health, they look at how many … of the food of these invertebrates that we use as indices. So it’s really quite a broad ecosystem approach. And that led me to get even more interested in how general environmental stressors, um, alter microbial biomass …

… trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from … Laboratory scientists who have uncovered remarkable genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an …

… BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees …

… communities in carbon cycling, in interactions with plants, and as drivers of methane production, nutrient …