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Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate … the first participants in the DOE JGI/University of California, Merced Genomics Distinguished Graduate Internship … Nicole Johnson in Wang’s group on developing an algorithm for RNA-Seq assembly. RNA-Seq is a technique for profiling …

… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how … Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by then-graduate student Cory Schwartz and his …

… to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and have … Lab is the home to an exceptional caliber of scientists.” For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” she will work with Susannah Tringe, …

… provides the only known reference microbiome data sets for the Loxahatchee Refuge,  was published in the journal  Environmental Microbiome . “Before JGI was involved, I was not sure we could even complete … Boca Raton Community High School. “I can’t thank JGI enough for being willing to take a risk on a group of public high …

… approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of … metagenomics. Such techniques take advantage of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial …

… the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his … as a computational biologist. My primary future goal is to form a startup.” …

… works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and … about the project. The story is reposted here in modified format; their conversation has been lightly edited and …

… energy and environmental challenges.   Scanning the California oak woodlands from the air, large swaths of the … can be seen. These plagued patches have become kindling for the inevitable next firestorm. The majestic sentinel … served as just that on a catastrophic scale from Baja California north into Oregon and beyond. The disease is known …

… secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a … Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable …

… sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable … Eloe-Fadrosh’s Environmental Genomics group, makes a pitch for readers to get involved in the developing field of virus …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers around the world have …