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During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent … virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate … the previous year and continue working on their research project! The JGI-UC Merced internship program was founded in …

… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic … of Experimental Botany (IEB) was supported by the ERDF project “Plants as a Tool for Sustainable Global …

… genomics research from reseachers who translate genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that will leverage the JGI’s DNA synthesis and … in support of advancing the bioeconomy.  This year’s project goals range from improving crop productivity for …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford Human … of Impact.     Notable large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood …

My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium hybridum . …

… 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 copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from additional parents or …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied and Environmental … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … why it’s so hard to succeed, and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into … as a postdoc working under Brad Moore on the Salinispora project,  so this is pretty comfortable territory for us, …

Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today we’re going to talk to Kate Duncan. And Kate is– I should ask, you … of North America. So then I came back and I worked on an EU project, the Scottish Association for Marine Science. And … awesome. I should point out that we also have a couple of projects in the lab that also work in microalgae as well. So …

Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial …

… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and … are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …