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Originally conceived as a UC Merced graduate student summer research experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to …

… with their mentors and fellow interns. Inspired by the success of the UC Merced internship program, they left the JGI more confident and ready to tackle real-world scientific …

The JGI aims to inspire more students to enter the STEM … space.         Special Outreach Initiatives: … The JGI and UC Merced have had a long-standing internship partnership … with Biotech Partners to host students transitioning from high school to community college. … University of …

Celebrating 25 years of genomics research 2022 marked the JGI’s 25th anniversary. We … energy and environmental challenges.  Commissioned for the JGI’s 25th anniversary, the JGI mural references dozens of …

The JGI’s Metabolomics Program works to uncover the roles of … terrestrial biogeochemical processes, development of high performance plants and microbes, and understanding … microbiome interactions. The  insights derived are crucial for advancing the bioeconomy, environmental …

The JGI’s DNA Synthesis Program supports a wide range of … pathways, and whole chromosomes for bioenergy and bioproduct applications. The program has completed over 70 … tools that enhance biofuel production and biosystem design. High-throughput design and synthesis capabilities accelerate …

With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s … bioeconomy where plants are a major source of chemical production and contribute to a healthier planet and a thriving … by environmental change, focusing on plant resilience — highlighting the vulnerabilities of monocultures and the …

… methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this tripartite … 10.1371/journal.pbio.2002860 … Postdocs: Margot Bezrutczyk (JGI Postdoc) Lamprinos Frantzeskakis (JGI Postdoc) Interns: … Wang (Spelman University, VFP Program) Emerald Nash (UC Merced Intern) Tyrome Sweet (UC Merced Intern) Ruoxi Zhao …

… and metabolic potential, with implications for energy production, environmental sustainability, and many other … Earth’s ecosystems. … The Metagenome Program focuses on the high-throughput sequencing of microbial communities to … viral populations. Enabling microbiome data science:  The JGI supports microbiome data science by enabling comparative …

The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge … and inter-organismal interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as … and bioeconomy applications. The program provides high-quality, large-scale genomic data to advance microbial …

… for bioenergy, environmental sustainability, and bioproducts. By sequencing and analyzing the genomes of these … affect plant health. The  1000 Fungal Genomes Project is a five-year project to sequence 1000 fungal genomes from … an international research team in collaboration with the JGI. Conserved Fungal Genes of Unknown Function offer a …

… first genome sequence with you. Brad: That’s right,  Dan: JGI did it in fact. Brad: That was a magical project I … two sequenced genomes of a Streptomyces , or gram-positive high GC organism.  Dan: Yeah, not a lot of natural product … that genome – it was a relatively small genome, about five and a half million base pairs. It was not linear, like …