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… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … crops: current progress and challenges , details how an interdisciplinary collaboration between three different … in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program has been …
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… 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 …
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… 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, …
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… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences. A zoo … viruses,” said Simon Roux , a JGI scientist and one of the project co-leads. “But same as DNA viruses, RNA viruses … encodes for an enzyme called RNS-directed RNA Polymerase (RdRP), necessary for replicating the RNA genome replication, …
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… have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and … UC Merced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center coordinator Jorge Arroyo lauded the partnership. Sindi also … shared their thoughts on the students’ efforts. Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial …
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… students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by … final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this … one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or …
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