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… While summer interns at the JGI from multiple programs had their own goals to achieve, they constantly collaborated with each other on new ways of presenting and researching science. …

… mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal … Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  … CRISPR-Cas systems to recognize and remove invaders’ DNA from their own genomes. One of these systems, the …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon … soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual … Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, then …

… The human-centered, agile collaboration between the JGI and the … JGI Data Portal , a pilot download experience accessible from JGI’s plant portal Phytozome . Although the Data Portal … are more broadly applicable to the download processes from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of …

… a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather … can also act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the … prevent methane production by routing the carbon away from methanogens. In The ISME Journal, a team led by …

… In one article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link …

… The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 … class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant … predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using …

… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the … users — have access to high-quality, assembled datasets from all of this information. The JGI aims to create … has been a collaborative effort. For example, with support from the  Exascale Computing Project , the JGI — along with …

… For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that … a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has … a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. On June 24, in what was billed as a …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on … Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as build their … The topics students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather …

… internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the opportunity to be fully … work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …