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… 2024 was a year of firsts, including the flagship internship program between Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University and the Joint Genome Institute. AAMU students spent two months in … with their mentors and fellow interns. Inspired by the success of the UC Merced internship program, they …

… her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to teach a second year … and organic carbon concentration. From Field Studies to Publication Together as a class, the students learned about … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine … (Berkeley Lab) to develop a process for more easily identifying cells of interest in a complex environmental …

… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The … the southern California and Mexican coastlines. Roughly 100,000 years later, that Japanese eelgrass crossed the … in protein sequences, while others analyzed single point mutations across the genome or changes to the plant’s …

… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper … an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There are over 10,400 species of ferns alive today. Boasting adaptations in … (Berkeley Lab) took on the Open Green Genome Initiative in 2018 as part of its Community Science Program. The OGG has …

… valleys, these organisms have diversified into an estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity of plants. To … Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations … and yeasts, outnumber their ancient relatives by nearly 10 to one in sequenced collections. Yet the early-diverging …

… the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our group also seeks out new … technology in order to enhance the quality of single-cell genomes and directly link functional information with … uniquely offers the first quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline that utilizes internal …

… Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems …

… To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and …

… Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers … matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, …