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This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas … she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other … organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & …

… lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate …

The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a … cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …

… can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. … The authors acknowledge support from the Center for Scientific Computing from the CNSI, MRL: an NSF MRSEC …

… experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to include undergraduate students. To date, …

… and dream big. They encourage students to pursue personal, academic, and professional development experiences … through in-classroom instruction and paid internships sponsored by various biotech and healthcare industry partners. …

… systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science … researchers studied the host  Ca . Altiarchaeum and its hitchhiker  Ca . Huberiarchaeum. Both organisms are part … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Sustainable Systems Scientific Focus Area funded by the US Department of Energy …

… appointment at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Visel also holds appointments as a Senior Staff Scientist at … provides direction, leadership, and oversight for all JGI scientific programs. The Deputy of Science is also … Computational Biology , Nucleic Acids Research . Over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, …

… 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology Pathway Engineering group. … Young Investigator Award 2013 Sustainable Biofuels Awards, Green Shoots Award 2012 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund, … … DNA Synthesis Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …