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The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research … lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These … (California State San Marcos) about how the Adopt-A-Genome project got started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that … National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling … they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… is chartered to render advice, guidance, and counsel on the effective management and strategic objectives of the … advisory panels and advocates of Program strategy, operations, and scientific relevance and quality. The Committee does not perform management functions nor do they direct the …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other omics … of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include the sequencing and comparative …

Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program … to counter soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve … the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s … Opportunities Center coordinator Jorge Arroyo lauded the partnership. Sindi also shared a message from Betsy Dumont , …