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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from … Malmstrom, Nandita Nath & W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought invaluable insights, …

… to the global research community.  Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. … biofuels and bioproducts, and medicine. Wading through 30 years of sequencing data, the team composed of Wu, … the team found that bacterial isolate genomes represent 9.73% of the total estimated diversity of the available …

… a partial sequence of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in 2003; then in 2007 the full genome was sequenced and published … that those sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference genome is cited in roughly 10% of all since-released publications on green algae. “The …

… to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  … this Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Newscenter story and this piece in  Current Opinion in …

… led the work in collaboration with JBEI as part of the 2021 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) … a DOE  Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award in 2021, which aims in part to build off of this work. Former JGI … Serrano said. This team quantified the expression of over 12,000 fungal genes, in addition to associated plant genes.  …

… In these springs, temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this … was then used to produce a paired amplicon dataset (a.k.a. 16S rRNA gene sequencing), a shotgun metagenome, and a … Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was supported in part by a Natural Sciences …

… to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic … at the time. Following the publication of their paper in 2011, Dr. Sekimoto from University of British Columbia and Dr. … able to assemble ~75% of the Olpidium genome and retrieve ~300 markers for phylogenetic reconstruction . We were also …

… proposal calls, projects can request up to 50 polar and 150 nonpolar metabolomics analyses. For the other calls, we … Annotation and Gene Integration . ACS Chem Biol. 2019 Apr 19;14(4):704-714. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.8b01107. Epub 2019 …

… like Minnesota for example, despite taking up only about 3% of the planet’s landmass, peat moss and their subsurface bogs hold over 30% of the world’s carbon. “This makes it one of the most … When Lawrence embarked on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand into …

… led the team to identify a gene called Less Shattering 1 (SvLes1); gene editing studies led by co-first author Pu … because they’re very productive even in high heat while C3 crops have become less efficient at photosynthesis, a … human health. So there’s a major question: how to turn a C3 crop into a C4 crop. There should be a master regulator …