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Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their … of the internship, 4th year PhD student in Quantitative and Systems Biology Mentor: Guohong Wu, Plant Comparative …

… survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … secondary metabolites within a lab environment, shining a light into this “biological dark matter.”  It also offers …

Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including sunlight, carbon and water, to convert them into energy that is … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics chloroplast function within a cell-sized system. The Impact Photosynthesis harnesses carbon captured …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … models,  Miscanthus has a large and complex genome whose evolutionary history and perennial lifecycle makes it … of  Miscanthus that was sequenced. Understanding the evolution of polyploidy, and how genomes respond to extra …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … in France and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … because they influence geochemical cycling in forest ecosystems. By deciphering the fruiting-related decomposition …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , one of DOE’s highest honors! Tringe, a microbiologist, was … director of Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user …

PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … bioremediate toxic substances has led to the development of cost-effective environmental cleanup strategies. Summary … JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. For example, the team has since identified  …

UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with … on cone snails, C. californicus in particular, as a model system for venom-microbe interactions. Cone snail venom has …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … in flowering plants, or angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They … thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … models, Miscanthus has a large and complex genome whose evolutionary history and perennial lifecycle makes it … species of Miscanthus that was sequenced. Understanding the evolution of polyploidy, and how genomes respond to extra …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of … Ye et al (2022) The role of zinc in the adaptive evolution of polar phytoplankton.  Nature Ecol Evol . … … Fungal & Algal Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …