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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 …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy crops more efficiently. Summary … 0002 01 to F. Martin), JGI Community sequencing program project (CSP570, DE-AC02-05CH11231), and National Science …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … presence of non-viral genes. Up to this point, there has been a lack of fast and accurate tools for researchers to … scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides. To …

… 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 …

… – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here … efforts with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind. Microbiome ecologist Shade became Director of Research at … Genomics of Energy & Meeting. Any investigator who has been an active user of the JGI at any time in the past two …

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 . …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … an estimated 40 to 80 percent of all the microbial cells on Earth. As microbial predators, viruses are able to determine … viral sequences, which would suggest the virus had been infecting the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from …

… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper … cousin. Ceratopteris richardii, or C-fern, specifically has been studied in plant research laboratories and plant … to Z.-H.C.). B.A.A. and D.W.S. acknowledge funding for this project from the Ambrose Monell Foundation. … Ceratopteris …

Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … environments. He’s been involved in several plant genome projects through the Community Science Program. As a UEC … seagrasses, considered marine flowering plants, and their microbiomes. She is exploring the seagrass rhizosphere in …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … (2017YFC0505203, 2016YFD0600101), and the National Key Project for Basic Research (2012CB114504). The work …

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