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Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even … the essential trace metal zinc, compared to other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar … of these microalgae interact, researchers have found that polar algae rely on dissolved zinc to photosynthesize. …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI … to gain experience in a non-academic research environment that is also distinct from private industry. I really liked … rewarding challenges. Also, my work touched on phenomena that were outside of the area of focus of most of the rest …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … has brought invaluable insights, thoughts, and explorations that has led to groundbreaking science and opportunities to … one. It’s proven to be a really good model for us that we try and continually replicate.”  On the other side, …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This … to stop and having responsibilities. I like the environment that JGI brings and being able to be a part of … enjoyed meeting and getting to know many of the scientists that work here.” Mentor: Lorenzo Aureli Project: “ Exploring …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant …

In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate … lab. And I find this really valuable because in this time that I’ve been in my PhD program, I’ve been really focused … specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the future.  Shari …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … Comics fan, you might liken the symbiotic relationship to that of Eddie Brock and Venom, an alien “symbiote” that …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human genome. Today, … groups at the Joint Genome Institute, it is fantastic that graduate students, postdocs, and staff scientists …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … continue our fruitful collaboration in the microbiome space that has resulted in many impactful papers in recent years, … high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, … Microbial communities living in hard-to-reach places that are considered to be inhospitable to humans are of …

Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the CSP  … they’re staying under the sequence cap? A(nswer): Proposals that are looking at multiple areas or multiple ways to … metabolomics, sequencing. The only requirements are that you stay under the 500-gigabase cap and that you don’t …

In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M … the soil. And I’m specifically working with a grass plant that’s similar to wheat and rice called Brachypodium … nice and willing to lend a helping hand at any opportunity that they have. Any questions that I may have, everyone has …