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In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer internship experiences have influenced their careers in science. Hear more about what …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological and … and altering cell fitness. As the vast majority of viruses remain uncultivated, Roux outlines what’s been …

Petra is an affiliate researcher who cultivates marine algae infected by giant viruses from subtropical, oligotrophic ocean gyres. She uses …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … Niyogi KK, Schmutz J, Theg SM, Blaby-Haas CE, Merchant SS. (2021) Widespread polycistronic gene expression in green … PNAS  118 (7) e2017714118 Foflonker F and Blaby-Haas CE. (2021) Co-locality to co-functionality: Eukaryotic gene …

Every summer, the flagship JGI-UC Merced Internship Program invites undergraduate and graduate students to engage in … JGI mentors. In this episode, hear two interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, …

… of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … reconstructed more than 2,000 genomes of large and giant viruses belonging to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. As a result, the giant virus …

In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … crop productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team … the switchgrass gardens for other projects. At the 2021 JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked about a …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, … majority of these protein families belonged to bacteria and viruses, though 6 million of the sequences evaded …