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DOE JGI microbes on space shuttle Endeavour per Wired UK

there are also some other passengers on the shuttle, who might not receive the same media attention, sew-on patches and victory parades. Alongside the all-male crew of mission STS-134, six types of microorganism and a bobtail squid will strap in their seat-belts and head into space. Read more in Wired UK but head for the DOE… [Read More]

Maize genomics at DOE JGI User Meeting in Genome Technology

Speaking at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s sixth annual User Meeting, held in Walnut Creek, Calif., in March, Buckler said that while they may not have realized it at the time, maize breeders in Thailand, Mexico, and elsewhere have, since the turn of the 20th century, captured a great deal more genomic diversity… [Read More]

Eucalyptus genome sequence in ScienceDaily

According to Prof Myburg, these scientists, as well as countries with commercial eucalypt plantations will be the primary beneficiaries of the genome sequence now available on the Internet (http://www.phytozome.net/eucalyptus.php). The Eucalyptus research community will continue to add value to the genome sequence in order to make it more accessible to the broader scientific community. Publication of the… [Read More]

Tringe DOE Award in BioPortfolio

DOE’s Office of Science awarded the Early Career Research grant to Susannah Green Tringe, a researcher in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Genomics Division, to study how microbial communities in restored wetlands may impact long-term carbon sequestration, from a genomic perspective. Read more in BioPortfolio [Read More]

Eucalyptus genome in FirstScience News

A team of international researchers, led by Prof Zander Myburg from the Department of Genetics and the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) at the University of Pretoria (UP) – in collaboration with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) – making available the complete genome sequence of the forest tree species, Eucalyptus… [Read More]

Tringe DOE Award in GenomeWeb

DOE’s Office of Science awarded the Early Career Research grant to Susannah Green Tringe, a researcher in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Genomics Division, to study how microbial communities in restored wetlands may impact long-term carbon sequestration, from a genomic perspective. Read more on GenomeWeb [Read More]

Tringe DOE Award in Technology Today

Susannah Tringe of the Genomics Division and DOE’s Joint Genome Institute. Tringe investigates the sequencing and characterization of natural communities of microbes and their roles in processes ranging from biomass degradation to efficient production of biofuels from non-food crops. Her Early Career award from the Office of Biological and Environmental Research is for her proposal “Microbial… [Read More]

Berkeley lab second campus in the Daily Californian

The six sites that made the final cut from a list of more than 20 potential sites in the Bay Area are Alameda Point in the city of Alameda, Berkeley Aquatic Park West in West Berkeley, Brooklyn Basin in Oakland, properties already occupied by the lab in Emeryville and Berkeley, Golden Gate Fields and Richmond… [Read More]

Poplar rust fungal genome project in Western Farm Press

The sequencing of the genetic codes of wheat stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis) and poplar leaf rust pathogen (Melampsora larici-populina) is expected to help researchers develop control strategies to address worldwide threats to wheat fields and tree plantations. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was a six-year collaborative effort of… [Read More]

Poplar leaf rust fungal genome project on KRVN

Wheat stem rust causes major epidemics of both barley and wheat worldwide. A strain known as Ug99 has spread across Africa and into Central Asia, and has been able to overcome most of the stem-rust-resistant wheat varieties developed over the past 50 years. Poplar leaf rust can cause significant losses in poplar tree plantations. Poplar… [Read More]