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… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 … partnership had become a “model” of sorts at the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to …
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… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, … microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, he directs … which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. His team is …
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… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial … environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 encompasses four subgroups, adapted … out that, without the JGI, the discoveries made in this project wouldn’t have been possible. Scientists hadn’t known …
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… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) …
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… Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since … and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also … Yasuo Yoshikuni is the DNA Synthesis Science Program Head at … Postdoctoral training in Biochemistry, University of Washington …
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… When the JGI Data Portal (https://data.jgi.doe.gov/) launched last year, it was only accessible through the plant portal … limited to: Public data: datasets associated with completed projects that are eligible for public release, have … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges. DOE’s …
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… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students … by a DOE training grant. Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah Mikes … on the plant microbiome. This year, however, there was a new aspect to the project - they also worked with …
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… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and … samples around the world, resulting in a five-fold increase of RNA virus diversity. “The world of viruses around us … viruses,” said Simon Roux , a JGI scientist and one of the project co-leads. “But same as DNA viruses, RNA viruses …
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… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome … specific procedure.” The rapport they built during this project and others (including the dissertation that preceded …
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… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change … impact of a large-scale heatwave event in the ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial … This work was performed under the auspices of the Scientific Committee …
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… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve … into biochemical production. Over time, as these projects have delivered results, they have also snowballed …
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… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and …
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