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UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with … californicus (and cone snails in general) outside of mostly anecdotal information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis … “This provided us with genetic evidence to tie together the evolutionary history of the different types of …

… in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … tool called geNomad that identifies and classifies mobile genetic elements based upon their gene content and their … rot fungi in the genus Lentinula. Dan Rokhsar looked to the evolutionary history of strawberries as part of a study to …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … to regain once it is lost. Depending on the exact phylogenetic placement of Olpidium, it may mean that the … remained largely untouched until seven years later. In 2018, as members of the ZyGoLife consortium , my colleagues …

… to enter the STEM workforce by fostering an understanding of our role in advancing the energy and environmental … internship partnership that started in the summer of 2014. … Modeled on the JGI-UC Merced internship program, … (SRI) at UC Berkeley is a program designed to foster a profound understanding of research methodologies within the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … make it a viable candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two … data portal Phytozome. The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … reference genome and releases it to the community. 2014: GENCODE project begins. To support growing sorghum and other C4 … each variety stores sugars and sequesters carbon. 2015: Epigenetic Control of Drought Tolerance in Sorghum (EPICON) …

… impact the planet’s nutrient cycles. While most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside … all across the world and lead to cell death and/or profound changes in the cell physiology during infection.” While all …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers … around the world have collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary history of life. …