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… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship … the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought … changed what I want to do with my life,” “I can code.”  Jorge Arroyo , director of UC Merced’s Undergraduate Research …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved … enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, …

… DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative … areas: Biofuels and bioproducts, Biogeochemistry, and Inter-organismal interactions. Algal research features prominently … the Sierra Nevada mountain range since 2014 to learn more about the microbial responses and feedbacks to warming …

… a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting … Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS proposals have helped advance her research. Learn more  here about the “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User …

… combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those … of robust tools available for carrying CRISPR into microorganisms. CRAGE (Chassis-independent Recombinase-Assisted … and other industries — yet there’s still so much about them we don’t know.  Unlocking the power of secondary …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … faster without extra crosses. The work wraps more than a decade of working with researchers at the U.S. Department of … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …

… the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what it means in a … where we’re moving from when my father was born, of about 2 billion people on the planet, to you know, within my …

… the JGI has also helped researchers understand a fungus that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian Soybean … which is maintained alive. Once a crop is infected, ASR can decimate up to 60-90% of its yield.  (Learn more about the soybean genome sequence and ASR in this JGIota, a …

… discovered more than 6,000 mitochondrial sequences previously unrecognized within existing public databases and … that carry them were strikingly different in both size and organization: Mitochondrial genome size and structure varied … (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the …