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Petra is an affiliate researcher who cultivates marine algae infected by giant viruses from subtropical, … gyres. She uses genomic and transcriptomic sequencing along with laboratory manipulations to understand how nutrient …

Gary Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing …

Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the … gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy …

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed … sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s …

When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international …

Berkeley is responsible for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work focuses on the … utilizing a variety of technologies to improve the JGI’s capabilities in the areas of metagenomics, …

TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …