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… and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of … at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the microbes in and on humans shape our health. A total of 16 projects have been approved, divided among the following …
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… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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… Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome … co-led the team that finished the DOE human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome … years, Mr. Schmutz has directed the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community driven science for …
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… forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way … burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how … transplant trees and soils, targeting helpful bacteria, viruses and fungi. Overall, better understanding of a …
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… a model for studying lipid production in other algae that may be more viable for sustainable biofuel production. The JGI published a partial … specific algae. The reference genome is cited in roughly 10% of all since-released publications on green algae. “The …
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… Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth … the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. …
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… is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. The fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) … 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s 2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis …
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… Miscanthus sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome … parts of the plant, the team identified genes that may regulate nutrient transport to and from the rhizome and …
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… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 large-scale proposals have been accepted … had not been a primary investigator on any proposals previously accepted through JGI’s calls. Nearly 200 Terabases of … Tara Oceans Expeditions that took place between 2009 and 2013, the Chaetoceros genus has been identified as the most …
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… Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors Elle Barnes and Susannah Tringe Shari Larsen and mentor Robert M. Bowers … in the government lab. And I find this really valuable because in this time that I’ve been in my PhD program, I’ve been … I was kind of worried coming into the, the internship that maybe I didn’t have as good of skills as somebody else might …
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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 … participated in this internship remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions, but virtual events and technology enabled a …
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