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Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … loosely understood, leaving potential targets for crop engineering untouched. Research recently published in  The …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from … underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. More than 20 UC Merced …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with … occupy more space on Earth than any other ecosystem. Therefore, understanding the microbial activity that dominates … cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not … The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: Integrating … to stay informed … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user …

… and semiconductor equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to … plant genomics.      Nucleic Acids Research 40, D1178. Publications … Scientific Advisory Board member, InterMine …