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Genome Insider

Stories where genes and genomes are key to solving energy and environmental challenges. Hear diverse voices in science talk about their JGI-supported research to better understand — and harness — the superpowers encoded in plants, fungi, microalgae, environmental viruses, and bacteria to contribute to a more sustainable world. 

  1. Adopt-A-Genome

    OCT 11

    Adopt-A-Genome

    In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take ...

    27 min
  2. Gotta Catch 'Em Gall

    AUG 1

    Gotta Catch 'Em Gall

    Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to grow structures called galls.In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these weird little pods.Links from this episode:Submit your own proposal to work with the JGIJoin us at the 2024 JGI User MeetingEpis...

    25 min
  3. A Redesign for Yeast’s Genome, Chromosome by Chromosome - Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang & Leslie Mitchell

    JUN 28

    A Redesign for Yeast’s Genome, Chromosome by Chromosome - Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang & Leslie Mitchell

    To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, with some artistic endeavors along the way. Eventually, the goal is to create an entirely human-generated yeast genome.Links from this episode:Submit your own proposal to work with the JGIJoin us at the 2024 JG...

    21 min
  4. Forest Fungi, Seagrass, and a New View of Symbiosis

    JUN 13

    Forest Fungi, Seagrass, and a New View of Symbiosis

    Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao Ma. And Karen Serrano and Benjamin Cole explain their research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots. Links from this episode:Submit your own proposal to work with the JGIJoin us at the 2024 JGI Use...

    27 min
  5. What Happens To a Rainforest When You Dial Up Drought? - Linnea Honeker and Malak Tfaily

    MAY 30

    What Happens To a Rainforest When You Dial Up Drought? - Linnea Honeker and Malak Tfaily

    Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: Biosphere 2. Links from this episode:Submit your own proposal to work with the JGIJoin us at the 2024 JGI User MeetingFICUS programEpisode TranscriptPaper: Drought re-rout...

    23 min

  6. 12/21/2023

    The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 3: Boating Out to David Buoy

    This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem.Links from this episode:Submit your own proposal to work with the JGIEpisode TranscriptThe Megadata of Lake Mendota...

    25 min

  7. 12/07/2023

    The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 2: Souped Up Computing

    This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2.Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that process terabytes of data with MetaHipMer2. And the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) has another supercomputer, Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster call...

    22 min

  8. 11/21/2023

    The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 1: Many, Many Mers

    Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works. So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together. The next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like...

    26 min
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Stories where genes and genomes are key to solving energy and environmental challenges. Hear diverse voices in science talk about their JGI-supported research to better understand — and harness — the superpowers encoded in plants, fungi, microalgae, environmental viruses, and bacteria to contribute to a more sustainable world. 

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  • Creator
    JGI
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
  • Show Website
    Genome Insider

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