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… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the …
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… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance … with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the …
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… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … research, written skill, above all else, determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome … the primary author on this publication and drove the entire project, Visel explained. She continued working virtually …
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… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Laboratory for … keeps its DNA more organized. “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are …
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… of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the … fungus Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, …
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… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together. The next 3 episodes …
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… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying them to environmental and energy challenges. But not all scientists have … in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program has been …
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… (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes. …
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… genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …
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… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted … to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by … one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or …
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… In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's …
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… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science … the data and compute platforms and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the … emerging AI-enabled capabilities for science. Dr. Sneddon is an accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and …
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