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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 …
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… Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 … Lawrence , the first graduate student intern from the 2014 cohort. After working on his post-doctoral position with … helped her in her role at the Lab as well. One of the 2015 program alumnus Cristhian Gutierrez discussed how his …
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… to the global research community. Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. … , the team found that isolate genomes represent only 6.55% while MAGs account for about 57% of the estimated diversity of the available datasets. This leaves 36% of archaeal diversity with no genomic representation. …
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… specific algae. The reference genome is cited in roughly 10% of all since-released publications on green algae. “The …
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… enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is … this Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Newscenter story and this piece in Current Opinion in …
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… 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. …
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… 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 … Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant to PFD (2019-06265). This work was also sponsored by NSF grants …
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… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic … led to the work published in Scientific Reports . Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of …
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… 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 …
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… When Lawrence embarked on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand into … his PhD dissertation defense presentations and beyond. In 2018, a friend of his wife’s passed along an open postdoc … peatmoss resilience to warming . New Phytol. 2022 Jun;234(6):2111-2125. doi: 10.1111/nph.18072. Byline: Ashleigh Papp …
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… (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high quality … led the team to identify a gene called Less Shattering 1 (SvLes1); gene editing studies led by co-first author Pu Huang … About The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center: Founded in 1998, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is a …
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