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… In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … in the Florida Everglades to help train the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience … define the specifics. It took the coming together of many unlikely pieces across the United States to enable the class …

… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes …

… Choice Awards . NERSC, JGI, ESnet are U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facilities. The HPCwire Editors Choice Award … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of … a global analysis of the diversity, distribution, and evolution of virophages.” Lead author David Paez-Espino  …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with … enabled a fruitful experience for mentors and students alike. Tools like Slack, Google Docs, and GitHub enabled …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that … to home in on precise biosynthetic enzymes elicited by fungal infection. They analyzed differences among mutant …

… genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …