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… the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training … interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah Mikes worked with mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  Brachypodium distachyon plant root …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … contamination, and drought. The moss genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used …

… 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 cohort and … to the project and I learned a lot and gonna take a lot away from it.  Ruoxi Zhao : Yeah, the most exciting thing I …

… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a future-ready … throughout our planet. From the deepest ocean floors to Antarctic valleys, these organisms have diversified into an estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity …

… genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for … only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the globe, often as a rootstock for  Citrus , appeals in other ways. It better tolerates cold, withstands pests, and, …

… Genome Institute (JGI). Tina serves in an HR advisory role to Division/Area management and supervisors to recommend solutions and appropriate actions on diverse HR … in Counseling from John F. Kennedy University. As a Mediator she is committed to enabling conflict resolution with …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “We’re very excited to start working with this years’ crop of CSP recipients, …

… portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a collaborative … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using 5,000 images of crystalized … in  a recent study in  Nature Communications , a chitosanase, is tied to carbon cycling and plays an important …

… head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to … with specific metabolic processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the …

… bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing … bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce these enzymes to break down polysaccharides. But …

… On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their … with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic … rather than single cells or isolated strains, is easy to generate, but difficult to assemble and interpret. The …