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… to further develop a more diverse and inclusive pool of talent for career opportunities at JGI and Berkeley Lab. …

… data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the … their genetic diversity. They hold economic value as both biofuel feedstock and their role in carbon sequestration. Poplar trees grow quickly in a variety of ecosystems and contribute to stabilizing streambanks, …

…   Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users … synthesis and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function.  Below find a list of the six researchers accepted for 2023. Proposals are …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the … giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study …

… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since been … In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and …

SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive … The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … analyses) to break up the compounds and to puzzle out their structures. Their results indicate that anaerobic fungi …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a set of "secondary metabolites," chemical compounds that often confer specialized capabilities that allow the …