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Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … Tomas Tyml and Dr. Frederik Schulz with the New Lineages of Life Group at JGI. And we’ve been working on isolating and …

Synthetic Biology Project Manager . … How To Create an Annotated GenBank File There are several easy-to-use open source … add the characters “.gb” (no quotes, just .gb) to the end of your file name. …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … Peter Nguyen : “Being an JGI intern has been an honor and a life changing experience to me. Starting my PhD straight out … Froula & Ed Kirton Project: “ Streamlining computational studies of misfolding proteins via high performance …

Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … But some viruses are also able to play a long game. In a lifestyle called lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves … suggest viruses are indeed piggybacking their hosts. Though studies in marine environments have detected viruses …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital … method could also improve genome recovery in microbiome studies, these scientists (now at Stanford University) …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … Summary Water temperatures and salinity determine how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The … Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … and sequencing of MSI metagenomes within the Census of Deep Life Sequencing call 2018, phase 14 project “Development of …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … environments — ultimately allowing them to adapt to life on land. Learning that these genetic tools existed in … the Joint Genome Institute Community Science Program (CSP), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … DOE National Laboratories, the Community Science Program (CSP), and external collaborations. The Director ensures the … Reference Genomes. Cell Genomics 2: 100213Nayfach S et al. 2021. A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nat …