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… internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started … the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought … our largest and most successful one. It’s proven to be a really good model for us that we try and continually …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … they uncovered a novel cellulose-degrading bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact Microbes are known … and unknown. The challenge remains to learn more about what microbes are present in any given …

… of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ … the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … cell sorting and non-standard molecular protocols.  Finally, his team utilizes new technologies, e.g. acoustic …

… The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is committed to advancing the field of genomics through … data policies. Since completion of the HGP, the JGI has sustained its commitment to uploading sequence data generated … (INSDC) has managed the growing corpus of sequence data for all organisms as a public good available to all users for …

… The Science In a recent Microbiome paper , scientists focused on the conifer needle microbiome. The phyllosphere, … pine, Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce–to learn more about conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what … are equipped to do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community composition and …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This year, the 12th JGI-UC Merced cohort … the DOE RENEW grant initiative when school starts in the fall.  Outside of the technical aspect of her project, Hour … video below to see what some of the interns had to say about their time at the lab. …

… of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… our planet. From the deepest ocean floors to Antarctic valleys, these organisms have diversified into an estimated … To put this evolutionary timescale in perspective, the genus Aspergillus has been evolving for 82 million years, … and ancient origins, fungi remain largely mysterious. Only about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … bioenergy crop switchgrass and a JGI Flagship Plant. All three  Brachypodium  grasses have small genomes, short … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… UDE familiarized themselves with the research programs and user facilities at Berkeley Lab. Commenting on the visit, JGI Director Nigel Mouncey expressed enthusiasm about the potential of this collaboration stating, “We … to advance unique scientific knowledge and address global challenges.”  During the workshop UDE and Berkeley Lab …

… relationships, and how the mutualistic associations allow host plants, such as candidate  bioenergy feedstock … walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there are soil saprotrophs, which … in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host and …