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… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … hone science presentation skills, and participate in professional development enrichment activities. For some … PhD research. And for the first time in this program’s history, two interns returned to re-engage with their mentors …
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… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. On March … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since been … In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and …
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… April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with … Merced Genomics Internship Program, and is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at the UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. …
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… National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 different types of NEON samples and specimens per … member as PI? A(nswer: The FICUS program is open to scientists at international institutes. Applicants do not need to …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias … of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen microbes involved in the digestion …
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… genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a … by Tanja Woyke at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … genome for a new genus level member of the novel candidate phylum Goldbacteria. They’ve proposed the name …
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… The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …
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… serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons … for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California (UC) San Diego, … aims to help overcome common user bottlenecks in access, analysis and sharing of JGI-generated data. She is also …
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