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Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like … common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software … Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user facility at Berkeley Lab. geNomad is now …

… but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, making the data available … for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about how the …

… undergraduate resource experience. Hear from CSU San Marcos Professor Matt Escobar and UC Davis Associate Professor Matthias Hess, also the …

… since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with … program cofounder and Applied Math professor at UC Merced, noted that the part that was the most rewarding of all the …

SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses … of stable, heavy isotopes, SIP allows researchers to go beyond understanding which microbes are present in a sample, …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? This session will demonstrate to students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting …

… we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to … and accelerates drought and desertification across the globe.  Karolina and I kicked off our conversation with a quick … that CAM. There are all sorts of other intermediate phenotypes where plants are using a little bit of both of the …

… they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the … have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new analysis takes a  … use to break down wood, and compares genetic diversity between cultivated and wild shiitake populations. The Impact …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly … a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. “Piloting access to this emerging technology … lands the cover of ACS Synthetic Biology. (Wayne Keefe/Berkeley Lab) For example, the JGI first used CRAGE to …

Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry … to their careers going forward. Watch this short video (below) to hear more about the summer from their own … Simon Roux and Frederik Schulz, Structure Prediction to Annotate Novel Viruses: the Case of Polintoviruses Josue Duque …

… single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; …

Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and CRAGE technologies. While CRISPR (Clustered Regularly …