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The JGI aims to inspire more students to enter the STEM workforce by fostering an … genomics research frontier.  Learn more about the JGI's activities in this space.         Special Outreach … program, the JGI collaborates with Biotech Partners to host students transitioning from high school to community …

… niche in chemical enzymology. So, we talked about her JGI DNA synthesis project to explore the chemical … the University of Michigan and a really talented graduate student, Chad, he predicted that ancestors, that those … with that class of enzymes call themselves the non-heme team. JACKIE WINTER: Do they have shirts? ALISON NARAYAN: I …

The JGI has a strong interest in seeing that the data produced by the facility result in scientific publications. JGI users and collaborators have the right to produce … the responsibility for leading the efforts to do so, and JGI expects acknowledgment (see Auspice Statement below) for …

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI consists of around 280 researchers and support staff in … in Berkeley, California.  Our location at the IGB fosters team science and collaboration with partner organizations …

… and I’m going to do it as an undergraduate and a graduate student then a postdoc and then a job.” Instead I got … is that we don’t know what all the biosynthetic gene clusters look like.  DAN: For sure.  MARCY: We have so much … do when you’re exploring your systems. Because I think the JGI has a little bit of a different approach. We don’t …

… during college or university, and I got this great job as a student assistant in the lab of Elke Dittmann, where I did … see a certain time span within these biosynthetic gene clusters. There’s gene fusion going on, and then I could see … was fascinating, I think. DAN UDWARY: Yeah, and that was a JGI Community Sequencing Project. You’re right, yeah. NADINE …

… think his energy is infectious. DAN: I’ll say up front that JGI recently started collaborating with Ben and his group to … technology to help access complicated natural product gene clusters, and we’re all really excited about that, and I … straight to the cancer cells and the toxin can kill it. Teamwork!   If you’re somewhat knowledgeable in natural …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards graduate students … SCGSR award is Mo Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of … with computational biologist Dylan Chivian and other KBase team members at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. …

…   The JGI’s Secondary Metabolites Program focuses on the … with only a small portion of the biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) being expressed. The program works to … to all sequence and annotation data and their comments. … JGI researcher Dan Udwary hosts this “fireside chat”-style …

… to the California gold rush. And we’ll talk about a new JGI paper that’s just come out where I got the chance to do … and sequence and get the information on biosynthetic gene clusters. And I’ll explain all this. So but first, let’s … of this stuff. ALISON TAKEMURA: Yeah, and if I were a grad student or an early career scientist looking to get involved …

… first genome sequence with you. Brad: That’s right,  Dan: JGI did it in fact. Brad: That was a magical project I … how many different kinds of projects and how many great students have come out of your lab. And it feels like that’s … And then, hey, we found the first example of a gene cluster in a microalgae. There were four genes there. Not …

… thing. Another way to approach it is more related to what JGI does, which is sequence genomes. And we just published … are actually are constructing a BGC, a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster. So we do have enough data, and if you follow them, … BARONA-GOMEZ: Exactly. There is a problem of finding a PhD student that wants to work on something that is completely, …