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… program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 … Lawrence , the first graduate student intern from the 2014 cohort. After working on his post-doctoral position with …
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… of Composable Elements (ICE) repository and/or DNASU Plasmid Repository) at the end of the embargo period. … … outside repositories until the earliest of three points: (1) publication of the data (including, but not limited to, … for which JGI has not yet received samples as of Sep 30, 2021 are subject to a 2-year embargo to maintain the timeline …
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… make it a viable candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two … switchgrass gardens to track crop productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass … from these gardens, a team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality …
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In The ISME Journal, a team led by researchers from the University of Konstanz and the University of Vienna … U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. For the sphagnome project, germplasm establishment and maintenance is supported by the US …
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… sphagnum genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, then tested for heat and pH stress by Oak Ridge … for protecting these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department …
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… and his advisor Ian Wheeldon, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Riverside. The team also included … CRISPR-Cas9 into an expression vector to create an sgRNA plasmid library. The team was then able to screen for the … genes were essential to Y. lipolytica . They identified 1,377, or 17.5 percent, of Y. lipolytica ’s genes to be …
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… user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a … and Lawrence were the first participants in the DOE JGI/University of California, Merced Genomics Distinguished … of a conversation Wang had with UC Merced students. “After class, we met the graduate students and they said they’d like …
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… to boost understanding of environmental viruses. In 2016, Nikos Kyrpides at the JGI led a team that combed datasets from around the world, finding over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes. That study … multiplied the number of known viral genes by a factor of 16. The same year, the JGI expanded its existing Integrated …
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… the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program, which started in 2012, and what they’ve discovered through their … DNA synthesis capability to better understand a special class of compounds, or secondary metabolites, called … Michael Jewett, a synthetic biologist at Northwestern University, and researchers at the biotech company LanzaTech …
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… across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry … cell wall-degrading enzymes such as ligninases and cellulases were much lower in ectomycorrhizal fungi compared to … (INRAE), Hungary’s Biological Research Centre, Clark University, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …
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… was led by Hal Alper, professor and associate chair at the University of Texas, Austin, and included researchers at the … Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. FA9550-14-1-0089, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and the …
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