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… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one way or another, they’ve all mentioned how …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks … Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and …

… list features 6,900 researchers working in 21 fields.  Congratulations to the  2022 Highly Cited Researchers from … the JGI is sequencing thousands of bacterial and archaeal genomes from diverse branches of the Tree of Life.  Its … : Searching for RNA sequences within a database can be like combing for the proverbial need in a haystack — until now. …

… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

… the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s … summer were: Rida Ali, who worked with T.B.K. Reddy on the Genomes OnLine Database; Sarah Fruchart , who worked with … worked with Zhong Wang’s group on an aspect of the same project assigned to Sharon and Cristhian; and, Lizhen Shi , …

… possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by … to accurately edit genomes (that is, repair gene mutations, and either delete or add genes in a precise fashion) … being advanced as a potential therapy for both genetic and complex disease. Finally, gene editing is being used to …