Two photos; in the left-hand photo, a researcher stands by a field of green plants. The right photo shows plants in pots in a greenhouse.

Kateryna Zhalnina, research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division, investigates plant-microbe interactions in bioenergy crop switchgrass grown in soil in an Oklahoma field (left) and in the UC Berkeley greenhouse (right). (Credit: Nameer Baker).