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… challenges they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school. The interns from this … I’ve been really focused with academia. And so this was the first time I was introduced into what a government lab and … because I am a math person, I got to see kind of for the first time how people do science on both a macro and micro …
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… and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: Integrating … insightful presentations, dynamic panel discussions, informative poster sessions, thought-provoking flash talks, … academia, government, and industry, are invited. Check back for more details and registration information. Sign up for …
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Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 … gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. A 2020 Nature Genetics paper describing the …
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… to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and have access to unique lab resources. Berkeley Lab is the home to an exceptional … allows me to work directly with Dr Susannah Tringe, gain first hand experience working in a national lab, and, with …
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Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome … experience sitting on the [Walnut Creek] campus … It was a resource-rich environment,” Lawrence said. While interning, … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.” Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …
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… organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary across the global ocean. … to be done is reducing the production of CO2 — this is the first and foremost important thing we need to do.” The study …
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… the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the … the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to contribute towards a diverse workforce and … be a part of it all. Among them was Travis Lawrence , the first graduate student intern from the 2014 cohort. After …
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… other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton. After peering into the function … . Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the … makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . Byline: Menaka …
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… helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they … be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these …
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… cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … acetoclastic. All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production known as Mcr. Until recently, the Mcr … observed, but to the “TACK” superphylum,” said study first author Bojk Berghuis. “This provided us with genetic …
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… the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI recognized for their “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last … their gene content and their genetic sequences. Roux was first author on a study featuring a new program called iPHoP …
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