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… organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Sailing from pole to pole on four research cruises, they dipped their self-closing containers into sea water to sample …

… also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic ways. In “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly …

… was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont … which is now her primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in … of User Program position in 2021. In addition to her JGI appointment, she also holds an Adjunct Scientist …

The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the … by fungi. It had been widely accepted that flagellum loss happened once during the terrestrialization of fungi. The …

… occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the microbial activity that dominates … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows that the way nutrients flow through the ecosystem of Ace Lake is …

On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: … the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … off for internal review to consider the biosecurity, biosafety, and environmental aspects of the proposals. Upon …

Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns from this … to the project and I learned a lot and gonna take a lot away from it.  Ruoxi Zhao : Yeah, the most exciting thing I …