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… internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought …
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… is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. The fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi … 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s 2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis … to counter soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI published its genome …
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… leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … Joint BioEnergy Institute and the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic …
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… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and …
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… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … The Impact Stable isotope probing is a long and laborious process — as well as a key way scientists study … HT-SIP is a capability available to request through the JGI proposal calls . …
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… has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of … has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology Pathway Engineering group. His research focus includes engineering of non-model yeasts for production …
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… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid … for PacBio? A(nswer): Regular PacBio typically requires ~ 1.5-10 ㎍. Low-input protocols are continuously improved, but … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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… (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program since 2011. Prior to joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute, Dr. … at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Kyrpides’ research focus on Microbiome Research with an emphasis on Microbiome …
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… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … In these springs, temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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… lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A diverse … proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to … tissues of C. citriodora . From these samples, a total of 127 TPS loci were found, many of which had high sequence …
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… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … zealexins. Even though scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. … as Sorghum bicolor — a candidate bioenergy feedstock and JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. …
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… To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a … these different routes. To train the model, the team used 1,870 known virus-host pairs to generate a matrix of data …
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