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… 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint … because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two copies, a condition known as polyploidy. The multiple … copies arise from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic ways. In “autopolyploids”, genome duplication …
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Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director … human chromosomes. After successful completion of the human genome project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team has continued … and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics …
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… of JGI, UC Merced and our student trainees.” A brown bag networking event in the JGI courtyard followed the 2018 UC …
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In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These students analyze the genomes, write reports, and publish first-author papers, … started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was …
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Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to … As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe …
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… Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science … of countering multiple attempts at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR … researchers surveyed publicly available data in the JGI’s IMG/M database , information the Probst lab used to search …
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… genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … in Nature , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied … of energy and environmental genomics.” Along with Woyke, two JGI users were also elected to the AAM: fungal …
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