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To understand how organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund … Hear how their recent work revealed more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way of moving: a tail-like flagella.  …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. … This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab …

… entertained the possibility of working at a national laboratory. However, through the JGI-UC Merced internship program, I was able to collaborate with extraordinary scientists and gained exposure to new and different opportunities that could be available once …

A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome … tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new experimental approaches to link viruses to their … group at the JGI to further explore the ecological and evolutionary drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil …

… the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the … Dr. Schulz employs multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, single cell genomics and phylogenomics) and machine … discovery pipeline and enrichment metagenomics for terrestrial protists. These approaches enable novel …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a … it’s possible that fungal communities — or enzymes from fungal communities — could pave the way for many …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … the common bean’s nutritional value, providing anywhere from 10-30% of daily protein requirements. It is also an …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever … bacterial group in the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he … molecular protocols.  Finally, his team utilizes new technologies, e.g. acoustic liquid transfer and …

… bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are … One other finding that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey … a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing …

… symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and Oregon. The cuttings included genotypes …

… journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education …