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… address of the 2023 JGI Annual Meeting. As the JGI’s Metagenome Science Program Head, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, introduced … on viruses, Holmes was part of the initial release the genome sequence for SARS-CoV-2 , back in January of 2020. … and his group want to better understand how wide this biodiversity is, and what factors determine how a particular …
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… determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program and … build proteins. What Wint and her mentors discovered in the genomes helped to reinforce Charles Darwin’s “survival of … at the JGI. Previous studies were conducted on one or few genomes, but Wint’s research expands the understanding of …
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… appointments at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are spread throughout the whole cell are … more genes than most bacteria and hundreds of thousands of genome copies (polyploidy) that are spread throughout the …
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… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, … Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California …
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