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… : “The best part of the internship is the welcome and open community of the JGI. Everyone is excited to learn and … in science.” Mentor: Zhong Wang Project: “ Improving biosynthetic gene cluster annotation by leveraging a large …
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… feedstocks, algae are tiny but mighty. An analysis in the 2017 Bioeconomy Report estimated that the United States has … produce enough algal biomass to yield the equivalent of 10-27 billion gasoline gallons if target yields could be … goal. In a collaborative effort published in Communications Biology , a team involving researchers at the U.S. …
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… interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been approved through the annual … through the DOE Systems Knowledgebase (KBase) , a free, open source data science platform that allows users to … evolution of three traits relevant to DOE interests: photosynthetic transitions, specialized metabolites, and …
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… a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative Systems Biology (QSB) Group under the School of Natural Sciences … a faculty member with research interests in computational biology, I was especially intrigued by this program, as it … on campus, Visel and Wang are already looking forward to opening the graduate internship program to a new pool of …
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… of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of their … opportunity with JGI’s experts in computational biology and microbial ecology will allow me to acquire vital … reproducibility of my project methods, and I hope that this open-source platform will be utilized by researchers from a …
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… one of the two main branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the fungus’ tissue. If you’re a … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are … partners. This genomic and transcriptomic analysis has opened the door for more incisive investigations into how …
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… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … co-founder Axel Visel and UC Merced Quantitative Systems Biology professor Carolin Frank reflected on the past decade … assistant for the UC Merced Quantitative and Systems Biology department. Jonelle Basso , a JGI research …
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Serve the Changing Planet (download a copy at jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of … of organisms and ecosystems. These kinds of data could open opportunities along multiple avenues, including …
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… in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. In the June 24, 2022, issue of the journal Science, Volland and … bacterium itself was discovered by Olivier Gros, a marine biology professor at the Université des Antilles in … ,” Gonzalez-Rizzo explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have …
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… matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, … of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. For the sphagnome project, germplasm establishment and …
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… project by watching Amanda Hurley’s presentation from the 2019 JGI Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting.] He’s … she’s really a champion of many different things in microbiology and biology in general. And her efforts first at … some great papers [on] recently – on evolution of biosynthetic gene clusters. And you and I have had some …
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More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 … intern): In her final year in the Quantitative & Systems Biology PhD program at UC Merced under the coadvisement of … JGI internship led to her co-authorship on a 2017 Plos Biology “The JGI-UC Merced Genomics Distinguished Graduate …
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