Blog - Environmental Sustainability

About 1% of all microbes are “culturable” in the lab. They are some of the most stubborn organisms requiring special and specific...

Sequence data from the previous year allowed us to determine the overall microbial population in each site and this year we decided to focus...

This summer we are offering two professional development workshops: GenomeSolver and Bioinformatics: Unlocking Life through Computation. ...

Yesterday, JCVI expedition scientist Jeff Hoffman embarked from Manaus on a sampling expedition of the Amazon River and its tributaries, which...

The 2014 Summer Internship Application is now open. Last summer, we hosted 49 interns from a pool of 424 applicants. They...

I’m off again on an ocean sampling voyage but this time instead of being onboard the JCVI’s Sorcerer II, I am onboard the R/V Endeavor as...

Arrived at Thule, Greenland after a 5 hr flight from Copenhagen. It was pretty interesting seeing a long line of people all getting on a...

Day three started with me missing breakfast. It seems that folks around here only eat breakfast between 5am and 8am. Today was a very rough...

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on T. Taxus, December 31, 2012, by Jonathan Badger. Dr. Badger is an Assistant...

The day started early Tuesday with first period. Thirty eager students arrived on the bus to determine the results of the amplification...

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