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… S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Through multi-platform stories and outreach efforts, … collaborators. Ms. Ballon is a molecular biology-trained science communicator with extensive experience shaping … Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s Stewardship Community of Practice. …
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… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut … installed at the Integrative Genomics Building , JGI’s newly-built home located in the heart of the Berkeley Lab … out the building. We don’t want to just throw everything into the landfill, we need to be able to divert it …
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… past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the … students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language … genomics, and to help foster a diverse future workforce in science. Since the program’s inception, more than 30 …
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… of working at a national laboratory. However, through the JGI-UC Merced internship program, I was able to collaborate with extraordinary scientists and gained exposure to new and different opportunities that could be available once …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number … nearly five million barrels of light crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley … cell genomics expertise led to the identification of a new “oil-seeking” species related to Oceanospirillales , …
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… recover high value products from human waste. They genetically modified yeast to efficiently convert elements present … produced by living organisms. The collaboration between the JGI and the Foundry on this project highlights an ongoing … $1.4 million annually. The team is working on developing new microbial strains that can synthesize other bio-based …
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… Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of antibiotics called zealexins. Even though scientists have identified at … as Sorghum bicolor — a candidate bioenergy feedstock and JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. … . And the work is part of a larger CSP Functional Genomics proposal to understand terpene synthesis and function …
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… Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial … in human microbiome research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine … at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She stepped into the Metagenome Program Lead position in 2017. She also …
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… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … was demonstrated using a specific group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in North Sea algal blooms. The … collected using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) into smaller, less diverse pools before being subjected to …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number … our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental … the human genome, an arms race was being waged. In the JGI@25 video below, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number … — some varieties grow their leafy stalks 16 to 18 feet into the air. Beyond being a staple grain eaten around the … its Sorghum bicolor reference genome and releases it to the community. 2014: GENCODE project begins. To support growing …
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