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Originally conceived as a UC Merced graduate student summer research experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to include undergraduate … students have contributed to the research of numerous JGI scientists. Interns say their experiences allowed them to:  …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the …

… podcast about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Natural products, … species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to medicine, the environment, and human health. As the JGI acts on …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … The researchers then pursued the Nha-C strain for further study, tagging the cells with individual fluorescent probes. …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral genomes from … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome … Polyploid Genomes in a Pan-genomic Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science …