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… attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the Florida Everglades to … is in this soil? Jonathan had been reaching out to many researchers with the hope of getting support for a research … Eloe-Fadrosh , the Metagenome Program Head at the  U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) , a …

Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in … the requirements and responsibilities of being part of a research institute. It has also introduced me to a … anyone in the Institute to get feedback and insights on the project and everyone’s willingness to guide or mentor me …

Summary Through the Community Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … into the common ancestry of these algae and land plants. Researchers identified key genes associated with stress … Change’ (SPP 2237), and grant 410739858 in the frame of the project CharMod to K.v.S., as well as RE 1697/16-1 (CharMod) …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … entailing the function of more than a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes … zealexins. These genes were synthesized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of … , which awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national … wetlands in south Texas,” he explained. “In terms of my project, I wanted to incorporate that CSP, but also look at …

UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or … in some cases daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote work. …

… are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and … self-organize, influence, and are influenced by microbial partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered tools to … bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this tripartite plant-bacterial-phage model system. We seek to …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Opportunities Center coordinator Jorge Arroyo lauded the partnership. Sindi also shared a message from Betsy Dumont , … shared their thoughts on the students’ efforts. Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial …

… looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, researchers have found that polar algae rely on dissolved … tick. He’s working with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … Program makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . …

Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research projects from PIs who have not led any previously accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work …