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Every summer, the flagship JGI-UC Merced Internship Program invites undergraduate and graduate students to engage in … interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, computational tools, and big data.  …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … on two types of naturally occurring switchgrass, those with 4 copies of the genome (4X) and those with eight copies … and environments. The long-term investments in both the genomics and gardens are helping these shrubby grasses …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

Register here The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and research results in genomics, metagenomics and the human microbiome. The …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 … is the interim director of Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related … UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research …

Gary Trubl is finishing his PhD in Microbiology at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Drs. Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As …

This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the …

… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …