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… fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past … 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. …

… 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 … collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.       …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … Since one of the challenges of developing alternative fuels from plants is the high cost and resource requirements of …

… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . The Science Most … species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets … “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … one-third of human-created methane emissions actually come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making … within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and …

… Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? … Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even … Tolerance in Sorghum (EPICON) begins. Peggy Lemaux (UC Berkeley) and her team studied sorghum plants in drought …

… Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech … that increase participation in higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from …

… thrive, and even support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… the Systems Infrastructure Team at the JGI since 2020. Before joining the JGI, he has been working on the boundary of life science and computational science with notable stops at NERSC, IMBA (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, … High Field MRI Centre in Vienna, where he first stumbled from software development into building productive …