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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental United States. They …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … program does for UC Merced students. He described it as “life changing” for the interns and loved the opportunities … the summer to “confident in themselves and their research” during their final presentations and beyond. Before breaking …

… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 billion worldwide underscores its value and … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

… assemblies for mating-type plus and minus strains reveal extensive structural mutation in the laboratory. The Plant … and gene copy number variation across multiple genomes.  eLife 11, e78526. Li et al., 2021.  Plant Pan-Genomics Comes … plant genomics.      Nucleic Acids Research 40, D1178. Publications … Scientific Advisory Board member, InterMine …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually … living. The Impact Microbes help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. …

… to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … reported synthetic CO2-fixation pathway called the “CETCH cycle.” The library remains a foundational asset that allows …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … hone science presentation skills, and participate in professional development enrichment activities. For some … in science. To learn more about each intern’s experience during their internship, check out their stories, told …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates … in GOLD. “Besides these, he curated several small sets of phylogeny, biosample metadata tasks we assigned.”       …