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… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … hone science presentation skills, and participate in professional development enrichment activities. For some … Merced internship program was founded in 2014 with the goal of inspiring students to embark on a career in genomics and …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Roland Hatzenpichler, Teresa Pawlowska, and Jana U’Ren completed their service on the UEC.  The UEC represents the …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes in protein structures … 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not well understood in fungi. A team of …

… interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants … temperature oscillations throughout the day. At the Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science 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 …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … switchgrass is among the JGI Flagship Plants . Since 2007, the JGI has been working on identifying switchgrass genes … crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint … determining the evolutionary history of strawberries wasn’t completely accurate. “They took every single gene from …