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… photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow their leafy stalks 16 to 18 feet into the air. Beyond being a staple … team studied sorghum plants in drought conditions for three years (2016-2018) in the field in Parlier, California at the UC …

… technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. At the 2016 CAMP Statewide Undergraduate Research Symposium , held … of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were among 5 UC Merced CAMP students who earned outstanding research … and 10 honorable mentions were recognized. The 5 UC Merced awardees were: Special Merit Awards Cristhian …

… dark matter through global metagenomics. Nature . 622(7983):594-602. Camargo AP. et al. (2023) Identification of mobile … virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell . 185(21):4023-4037 Nayfach S, et al. (2021) Metagenomic … metagenome-assembled viral genomes. Nature Biotechnol . 39(5):578-585. Nayfach S, et al. (2021) A genomic catalog of …

Genomics call for proposals . The proposal call is open year-round, but proposals submitted by July 30 will be … [DNA Synthesis Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave back in 2016.” Alper’s first approved JGI proposal came through the … scale the request size, being permitted to request up to 1.5 megabases (MB) of a synthesis, compared to 0.5 MB for a …

…   Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art … applications in support of advancing the bioeconomy.  This year’s project goals range from improving crop productivity … nine researchers accepted for 2024. Proposals are accepted year-round; the next deadline is Jan. 30, 2025. …

Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is …

… the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE … to easily analyze viral genomes. This includes (i) classifying viruses into groups that can be compared across … specific database of IMG/VR (Viral Resources.) Launched in 2016, IMG/VR is the largest publicly available collection of …

… bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it comes to nutrient cycling in polar … Antarctica, was separated from the Southern Ocean roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for …

… may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a colored-in page of that book. Published online September 28, 2022, in … Using this workflow, the team combed through more than 5,000 data sets of RNA sequences (metatranscriptomes) … viruses is just the beginning. “I often say that just identifying a sequence as viral is not even half the story.” Neri …

… papers during the last decade” by Clarivate Analytics. This year’s list features 6,849 individual researchers from 67 … rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor Grigoriev (Cross-field) Natalia Ivanova … in its resiliency, as well as a Nature Plants study identifying colonization patterns in eelgrass . Igor Grigoriev’s …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, …