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… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually … the goal of inspiring students to embark on a career in genomics and to help foster a diverse future workforce in … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship …

… Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest …

… Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers have developed a genomic model to study drought tolerance in perennial grasses using Panicum hallii (Hall’s … and tolerance to stressors such as drought. This information can be applied toward improving crop yields in …

… We perform analysis for diverse experiment types, with main focus areas being genome variation, transcriptomics and epigenomics. Our work varies in scope from the development of …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and … interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that while archaeal hitchhikers may often …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, … what is now the  Community Science Program Functional Genomics proposal call, the JGI synthesized hundreds of  … work well in further experiments, so she could glean information about their specific function, filling in our …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards … animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the Eukaryotic Genome …

… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics … work, he established an efficient switchgrass transformation pipeline and, in collaboration with industrial … grass that is well suited to experimental manipulation in the laboratory because of its compact genome, diploid …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense collection … interest. As Doudna noted in her book, “These bits of information sent a little shiver of intrigue down my spine; if …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side … of whole genes,” Kellogg agreed. “Getting that information is hard. There’s a good reason nobody’s done it; …