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… and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from UC Merced recently had summer internships … Alvarez, both California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) students at UC Merced. CAMP is a statewide initiative funded by the …

… is through a method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only around 30% … stitch the pieces together and attempt to put them back into the original genomes. These metagenome-assembled …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab … years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, after … , two of the JGI’s sequencing platforms were turned back on. A third sequencing platform was scheduled to resume …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an … in many impactful papers in recent years, but are also looking forward to jointly expanding into new areas of …

… multiple chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene expression as it grows back vigorously year after year (perenniality). The Impact … The reference genome for M. sinensis, and the associated genomic tools, allows Miscanthus to both inform and …

Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One … a Marvel Comics fan, you might liken the symbiotic relationship to that of Eddie Brock and Venom, an alien … generally anticipated that in this symbiosis going back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps …

As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest class of fungi, by lifestyles. The machine “learned” to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis … to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high … scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the … the refuge to collect soil samples from multiple locations. Back in the classroom, JGI researchers walked students …

… and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing …

… one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, … its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time estimates … eelgrass used in the study to reveal colonization events.  Looking ahead, scientists can use this information to assess …