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Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI … wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of videos produced by JGI …

The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … provided the Erb lab with enzymes that led to a previously reported synthetic CO2-fixation pathway called the “CETCH … Office of Science User Facility (contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231) with T.J.E. as grantee. J.-C.B. acknowledges the …

… microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from … Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and … standards. Nat Microbiol . 8(5):751-753. Nayfach A, et al. 2021. A genomic catalogue of Earth’s microbiomes. Biotechnol …

… and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the data provided. In this proof of concept test, the team reported that the algorithm was over 95% successful at …

JGI mentors. In this episode, hear two interns from the 2021 cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, …

… to date.  This summer internship program, which began in 2014, pairs undergraduate and graduate students from UC Merced … daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote work. In … The 2020 JGI-UC Merced interns and mentor/s: Brendan Blasius & Guohong “Albert” Wu Edgar Jimenez & Sharon Greenblum …

… and applying these engineered ecosystems across various biological contexts. The program fosters intimate, …

… targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and … traditional shotgun metagenomics approach to learning more about environmental samples starts with researchers first … User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This study was funded by the Max Planck Society. …

Those from the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor … Biochemistry, Microbiology) Jeremy Schmutz (Cross-field) Susannah Tringe (Microbiology) Tanja Woyke (Biology and … Roux, along with data from a consortium that included Susannah Tringe and Tanja Woyke, were all instrumental in the …

… with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call …

… the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data … (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two …