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Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University and the Joint Genome Institute. AAMU students spent two months in Berkeley, California honing their scientific skills and collaborating with their mentors and fellow interns. Inspired by the success of the UC Merced internship program, they left the JGI …

… relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the …

… back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … as well as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … organisms have developed metabolisms that function with a toolkit of enzymes. It’s useful to differentiate these …

… most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed … However, eelgrass didn’t have a reliable calibration tool in the form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the …

… archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights …

… energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal … genome sequence of a mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from looking at single organisms to applying a broader …