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… were selected to carry out part of their thesis research at 12 host national laboratories or facilities between 3-12 consecutive months. Their proposed research projects … of the latest SCGSR award is Mo Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… to the global research community.  Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. … the team found that bacterial isolate genomes represent 9.73% of the total estimated diversity of the available … diversity of microbial genomes, accounting for nearly 49% of the total estimated bacterial diversity. The team …

… 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 … Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant to PFD (2019-06265). This work was also sponsored by NSF grants …

… 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 … resilience to warming . New Phytol. 2022 Jun;234(6):2111-2125. doi: 10.1111/nph.18072.   Byline: Ashleigh Papp …