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In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … in the Florida Everglades to help train the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to teach a second …
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By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures …
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Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … extremophile protists from a hypersaline alkaline lake in California. Sandra Hernandez Gonzalez : Out of this …
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… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to … the virus had been infecting the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the …
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… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences. A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … data sets, their work may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a colored-in page of that book. Published online … The team used all the publicly available metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & …
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JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been approved through the annual Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals come from investigators …
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… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user facilities—the … (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for support from 53 received through a joint research call. Submitted …
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Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the … below is as follows: 100% Refund upon request prior to 08/31/2025 50% Refund upon request prior to 10/31/2025 No …
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The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of …
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… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … (cDNA), reducing the amount of time it takes to produce a dataset from months to days and halving the total reagent …
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After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany … 2018-2023 Highly Cited Researcher, Biology and Biochemistry, top 1%, … (2015-current) Organizing Committee Board Member for Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Conference (2017-current) …
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DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of … which is best for the task at hand. “There are at least 30-40 programs and it is not clear which are the best to …
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