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    Genome Insider

    Genome Insider

    Genome Insider

    ratings:
    Length:
    48 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    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. 
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 48 episodes

    Title

    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 Zhan...

    20 minutes
    		Jun 28, 2024

    Forest Fungi, Seagrass, and a New View of Symbiosis

    Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin a...

    26 minutes
    		Jun 13, 2024

    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 k...

    22 minutes
    		May 30, 2024

    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 W...

    24 minutes
    		Dec 21, 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. ...

    22 minutes
    		Dec 07, 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...

    26 minutes
    		Nov 21, 2023

    Experimenting with EcoFABs for Student Labs - Jill Bouchard & Ying Wang

    To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s grou...

    22 minutes
    		Nov 09, 2023

    JGIota: A Surprise for Chloroflexota — The First Flagella!

    To understand how organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedl...

    8 minutes
    		Oct 19, 2023

    JGIota: A Tool to Find the Nomadic Genes that Help Microbes Adapt - geNomad

    A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind ...

    5 minutes
    		Sep 20, 2023

    Methane Makers in Yosemite's Lakes - Mike Beman and Elisabet Perez Coronel

    Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve s...

    27 minutes
    		Jun 29, 2023