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… biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium … around the planet–through techniques including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , …

… Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab …

… Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields … ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who …

… also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … arise when different ancestral species crossbreed before genome doubling. In allopolyploids, the set of … a subgenome. Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to …

… to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … naturally modifying lignin.  The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining components into  biofuels and …

… is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon … Reports. Print copies will be available the annual JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting in San Francisco …

… energy and environmental challenges.   Scanning the California oak woodlands from the air, large swaths of the … can be seen. These plagued patches have become kindling for the inevitable next firestorm. The majestic sentinel … served as just that on a catastrophic scale from Baja California north into Oregon and beyond. The disease is known …

… the plant portal  Phytozome . Now the portal offers a way for users to more easily access public data sets through a common set of metadata. For Steve Wilson, JGI’s Systems Engineering group lead, the … or fungi ( MycoCosm ). “We have made a concerted effort to create a common set of ‘baseline metadata’ across …

… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the … Berkeley National Laboratory, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Duke University, published their …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and integrating mathematics and chemistry for advanced analysis, modeling, and data integration. Dr. … in spectral alignment, molecular networking, chemoinformatics, and bioinformatics facilitates impactful …