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Celebrating a Decade of Science through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program
… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … co-founder Axel Visel and UC Merced Quantitative Systems Biology professor Carolin Frank reflected on the past decade … Jorge Arroyo , director of UC Merced’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Center, echoed similar sentiments for …
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Comparative genomics reveals high biological diversity and specific adaptations in the industrially and medically important fungal genus Aspergillus
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New Biological Insights Into How Deforestation in Amazonia Affects Soil Microbial Communities Using Metagenomics and Metagenome-Assembled Genomes
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From Textbook to Real World Applications
When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim … interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional …
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Science Programs
The JGI’s Science Programs offer support to users and their research efforts.  JGI scientists lend their expertise to … edge approaches for and with users, and create computational tools and resources for them. Their concerted efforts help maximize the JGI’s impact in advancing …
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Dan Rokhsar
… in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed … a Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development after his research interests shifted from condensed matter physics to computational biology, genomics and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s …
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High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant
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Refinement of the “Candidatus Accumulibacter” genus based on metagenomic analysis of biological nutrient removal (BNR) pilot-scale plants operated with reduced aeration
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FICUS Overview
The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in 2014 to encourage and enable researchers to more easily integrate the expertise and … of multiple Department of Energy Office of Science National User Facilities into their research. In recognition of …
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JGI-KBase Panel at SACNAS
Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? This session will demonstrate to students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a … of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a research article. Speakers will highlight opportunities for …
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JGI Interns at UC Merced Earn CAMP Merit Awards
As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from UC Merced recently had summer internships in …
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Partnering with CalTeach – Training the Next Generation STEM Workforce
As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – … disciplines advanced by the JGI, we seek to inspire more students to enter the science, technology, engineering, and …
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