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… the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in not only their work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… 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 …

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

… the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to … of IMG/VR to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the … operationalizing new genomic technologies, integrating automated liquid handling and bioinformatics pipelines to … San Diego Postdoctoral training in bioinformatics, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab …

… 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. …

… crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence … With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that … threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …

… a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your garden 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 …

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

… final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, …

… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the … genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and … were two undergraduate students and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez …

… 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: guayule.  …