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Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the … information. According to Lawrence, this summer project aligned with his computational background and …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, … the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was also provided by the …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write … (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is … the primary author on this publication and drove the entire project, Visel explained. She continued working virtually … Practical Applications for Fungi Wint began working on the project that culminated in this publication during her …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, along … JGI group has been wonderful to collaborate with, and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories around the … research offshoots in totally different areas, beyond the project’s initial scope. Sequencing and culturing this vast …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So … In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's …

… students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by … one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or … in some cases daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote work. …