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… daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote work. In … The 2020 JGI-UC Merced interns and mentor/s: Brendan Blasius & Guohong “Albert” Wu Edgar Jimenez & Sharon Greenblum … Li Lei and Virginia Scarlett Jasper Toscani Field & Brian Bushnell Lesly Lopez & Li Lei Lorenzo Scaturchio & Benjamin …

… and applying these engineered ecosystems across various biological contexts. The program fosters intimate, …

Biochemistry, Microbiology) Jeremy Schmutz (Cross-field) Susannah Tringe (Microbiology) Tanja Woyke (Biology and … Roux, along with data from a consortium that included Susannah Tringe and Tanja Woyke, were all instrumental in the … and evaluates multiple predictions to reliably match viruses with their archaea and bacteria hosts.  Jeremy …

… with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call …

… leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and … and complex life. Science . 376: 1453-1458 Nayfach et al. (2021) A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature … 9 (1), 1-9 Roux et al. (2018) Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG). Nature …

… the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data … (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two …

… an array of experiments at universities and national user facilities, researchers found that this protein detects … we were able to work with on this project to ask questions about structure and function,” Blaby-Haas said.  Looking at … modified versions of this protein domain. In an array of computational,  in vitro and  in vivo experiments, they …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support … and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer … and external scientists, the Wang group has developed customized data analyses and software to enable “grand-scale” …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial … genes from isolates, there isn’t much scientists can tell about its function or its origin. As a result, these genes … The study took roughly two years to complete, with only about 20,000 metagenomes sequenced at the time. Now, that …

… all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these … to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources to sequence it,” Patrinos said. After many … of a genomic arms race as they recognized the private industry’s interest in simultaneously sequencing the human …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect … a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department … high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more than 14,000 …

… health. Three DOE national labs had people and resources focused on three human chromosomes: Lawrence Berkeley National … researchers were studying Chromosome 5, which contains about 6% of the human genome . They discovered genes linked … Laboratory had teams studying Chromosome 19, which contains about 2% of the human genome. They were interested in genes …