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Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, …

State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource … Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were … and other mobile elements. Moreover, the MAGs are composites of high similar genomes, and no cell in the microbiome …

… other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria … special skills to break down pollutants and recycle carbon. They were part of an ancient lineage of bacteria to …

… and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the students participated in networking workshops, data carpentry hackathons, and also made new friends while working on their summer …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex … communities living in hard-to-reach places that are considered to be inhospitable to humans are of particular …

… tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. Presented by Igor Grigoriev, Steven Mondo, Steven Ahrendt and Sajeet Haridas. …

… showcases the work of JGI collaborators in brief forays, connecting audiences with the people behind the science. Hear … the superpowers encoded in plants, fungi, microalgae, environmental viruses, and bacteria to contribute to a more sustainable world. Learn about …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … or consuming methane, those are already diametrically opposite — but also you do not even know if they’re actually … our experiments to test that were unsuccessful — which doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t do it, but they are …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular …

Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative … that will take place on the UC Merced campus in late October or early November, at which time they will receive …

… and the Joint Genome Institute. AAMU students spent two months in Berkeley, California honing their scientific skills and collaborating with their … the UC Merced internship program, they left the JGI more confident and ready to tackle real-world scientific issues. …