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… Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

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

… in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that … They were part of an ancient lineage of bacteria to migrate from oceans and colonize land. Terrestrial  Chloroflexota … extremes, where both temperatures and pH levels vary wildly from spring to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor …

… enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress … of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which were isolated from diverse freshwater environments. Arising in tandem from the same ancestor, these algae are considered sisters …

… is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is … sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied clades, establishing their … supergroup. As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great …

… proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic …

… next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …

… all the work that went into this program was the feedback from the graduate student interns; “it changed what I want … interns. For him, it was a special moment to see interns go from being “intimidated and nervous” at the beginning of the … was Travis Lawrence , the first graduate student intern from the 2014 cohort. After working on his post-doctoral …

… papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State …

… later on in the spring. In this episode, hear proposal tips from Tanja Woyke, who runs user programs at the JGI, and …

… it’s possible that fungal communities — or enzymes from fungal communities — could pave the way for many … But there’s opportunities for borrowing and porting parts from nature — enzymes, transporters, pathways — into …