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New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC … DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to … and Lawrence back on campus, Visel and Wang are already looking forward to opening the graduate internship program …

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

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. … between the JGI and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, dating back to the first complete genome of a poplar tree in 2006. …

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 … to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … — gives forest managers more avenues to bring forests back to full function. Foresters can transplant trees and …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and … nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, and water recycling.” Tringe is the interim director of Berkeley …

Biology Who’s Invited? All Berkeley Lab Employees and Affiliates. When: August 29th, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm 3:00 pm – 4:15 … Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek Featuring a casual, candid, C-level panel discussion with … Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … of nutrients in these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike … JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re looking at: the role viral infection may play in other …

… specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  … that to include six more species, so in total, we are looking at 18 different species, which included over 2000 …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match characteristics — creating many different ways of … insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving …