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… This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and … gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in not only their work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play …

… to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Facilities (FICUS) program for fiscal year … user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; … interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular techniques. The FICUS program is designed to …

… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for …

… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI … software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread …

… plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 … the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move … bringing this mobilome into light, and opening up new options for engineering these microbes in the future. Join Sarah …

… PPE or Personal Protective Equipment is worn to minimize exposure to … Over the last few months, we found an increasing number of colleagues missing elements of the required PPE in the lab. To address this issue, we … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …