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Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and is … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of …
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For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, … Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander … at a high level as JGI transitioned from the Human Genome Project to gaining momentum as a national user facility. He …
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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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A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … At ORNL, Lawrence brings a bioinformatics expertise, a combination of biology and computer science, to reveal clues … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the …
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… of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the … them to efficiently break down the wide array of simple and complex components present in plant biomass. This is of … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, …
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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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For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … the primary author on this publication and drove the entire project, Visel explained. She continued working virtually … for nearly three years after her internship. “That level of commitment and collaboration between intern and mentor is …
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… visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the … 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … keeps its DNA more organized. “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are …
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… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow Salix … The JGI sequenced the shrub willows through the Community Science Program , using long-read sequencing to … (2017YFC0505203, 2016YFD0600101), and the National Key Project for Basic Research (2012CB114504). The work …
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