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… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … type-strain deposits. All of these genome sequences and the tools to compare them are available on the JGI’s Integrated … follow up work, but also maintains various bioinformatic tools and comprehensive curated databases, including …
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… the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences, among the interns were two undergraduate … underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. This summer, they worked …
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… interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering … how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic components required for effective colonization. In …
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… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … to regain once it is lost. Depending on the exact phylogenetic placement of Olpidium, it may mean that the … genome and transcriptome data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly …
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… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant … isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these …
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… Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science … Pathogens Shayna Bennett and mentor Robert Bowers, Mobile Genetic Elements and CRISPR Spacers in the Conifer Needle … and mentor Bryce Foster, Benchmarking Bioinformatics Tools for Sequence Similarity Searching Morgan Lavenstein …
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… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum genomes from plants … was theorized that sex determination was possibly driven by genetics, or even temperature. By sequencing the genome, …
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… could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …
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… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from … underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. At the 2016 CAMP …
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… (UEC) represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and practices that affect users and their … as well as proposal review procedures and the organization of the JGI Annual Meeting. Any investigator who has been …
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… genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A new analysis … enzymes these fungi use to break down wood, and compares genetic diversity between cultivated and wild shiitake … project of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (cofinanced by FEDER funds) to F.J.R.-D., S.C., and …
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… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex … hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program (DEB-1542509 to S.D., …
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