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… paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields … that is also distinct from private industry. I really liked the fairly flat organizational structure, and found … in exactly what area I will ultimately pursue a career, a model like JGI is certainly of interest. What is/has been …

… diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at … The weedy grass was green millet (Setaria viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … fungus’ tissue. If you’re a Marvel Comics fan, you might liken the symbiotic relationship to that of Eddie Brock and … to better understand lichen. The Impact Lichens are a model for inter-kingdom communication and cooperation. Their …

… viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights … giant virus genomes led the team to uncover a prevalence of encoded functions that could boost host metabolism, such as … light-driven proton pumps. “We’re seeing that this is likely a common strategy among the large and giant viruses …

… has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and biological data management. She was one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for scientific applications developed at Berkeley Lab. Dr. …

… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene likely important for sex determination and a shared genetic … called Z and W instead of X and Y, and ZW rather than ZZ encodes for females. To better understand how sex …

… in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in plant genomics, because it … if you have to go out and collect wood to cook, not just like walking into your kitchen,” McClean said. “…The less …