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… of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), … campuses with this being our largest and most successful one. It’s proven to be a really good model for us that we … program cofounder and Applied Math professor at UC Merced, noted that the part that was the most rewarding of all the …

… 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model … the University of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The …

… years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … populations. Summary Eelgrass is unique in that there are not many species able to occupy the regions where eelgrass … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … look at how this enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the … as well as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… developments for improving microbial, metagenomic, or plant genome assemblies. [Download PDF] Q2 – Report on progress … PDF] Q3 – Report on new computational approaches for the annotation of genomic data. [Download PDF] Q4 – Report on a … or plant genomes. [Download PDF] End-of-year Goal – Develop one new computationally enabled approach to analyze complex …

… are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To … it to usable organic compounds. However, no microbe works alone. Archaea, bacteria, and viruses all operate in concert …

… of the University of Georgia sequenced and analyzed the genome of the common bean. That work was published online … diversity makes it easier to genetically manipulate. One important improvement to the bean spawned from this … to have with a faster-cooking bean itself.” The original reference genome yielded what are now widely-used molecular …

Functional Genomics (formerly DNA Synthesis) call, and he noted the data had driven his lab’s focus on guide RNA … the University of California, Davis. “The work with JGI was one of the first things we actually started doing when … the full library.   … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in saltwater (halotolerant) … that the United States has the capacity to produce enough algal biomass to yield the equivalent of 10-27 … analysis effort for a more complete picture. The team annotated the algal genome and analyzed its metabolome to …

Highly Cited science and social science researchers in one or more of 21 fields appear on the 2019 list. … a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 Aspergillus Go here to learn more … Institute for Biotechnology that worked on an updated reference genome for Theobroma cacao, the tree that produces …

… conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and … in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we … general) outside of mostly anecdotal information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a good portion of 2016 and all of 2017 …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … the goal is to create an entirely human-generated yeast genome. …