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Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science … own perspectives. The interns from this cohort and their JGI mentors are listed below, along with their project focus …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program, Lawrence is now a …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new genomics technologies, scaling up …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While … Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the … Associated Microbes and Parasites. Ul-Hasan credits her JGI-UC Merced summer internship for helping lay the …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal … State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource … Associate Professor Matthias Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from …

… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … 150 archaeal viruses had been previously identified. The JGI researchers surveyed publicly available data in the …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile … and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … approach. The tool was employed to build version 4 of the JGI’s  IMG Virus Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 …

… series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks … and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … crops. For that reason, its genome was sequenced by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be a Flagship Plant. By …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … CRISPR to knock out or activate genes, researchers at the JGI were able to monitor loss- and gain-of-function. The …