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… a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a … threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …

… and a potential fuel for the future. But, to be competitive in the market, both energy policy and Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

… Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, industry, and government organizations for …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …

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

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …

… has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial … data with existing bioinformatic methods to bridge the gap from sequence to biology. …

… 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 …