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… challenges. And many JGIers work to connect those big goals with their everyday activities, striving for sustainability … that works to prepare the IGB to be the first Lab building with laboratories where 90% of landfill waste is diverted to … in mind, they’re focused on easy-to-maintain, drought tolerant plants that can also provide shelter to …

… of scientific policy, engaging in interactions with the scientific community at large. … Wang Z, Visel A (2013). De novo transcriptome assembly of drought tolerant CAM plants, Agave deserti and Agave …

… Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Recently, Lawrence, in collaboration with researchers from ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National … it’s an opportunity to contribute to the rapidly expanding field of bioinformatics. When Lawrence embarked on his PhD … internship and investigations began.    Lawrence was paired with program co-founder and JGI mentor, Zhong Wang. …

… wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial … “So, that diversity is definitely holding a lot of new secrets in terms of functional diversity as well.”  …

… of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular … Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they tested … samples from the Great Boiling Spring Geothermal Field in Nevada. To validate the predicted cellulases from …

… Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open …

… Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional … Comparative Analysis What effect has your summer internship with the JGI had on your plans to pursue a STEM career?
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… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers … been  published in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to … a genome has been compared to putting together a puzzle without necessarily knowing the final image. In contrast, …

… Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC … patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and … intimidating. That first exposure from great interactions with Dr. Ben Cole and Dr. Axel Visel led to being co-advised …

… and characterized a novel phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed Marsarchaeota. The … lineages found there and elsewhere provide researchers with insights into the evolution of life on Earth. For … of Montana State University has been conducting microbial field studies at Yellowstone, and in this latest report, …