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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 … Research Symposium , held February 6 at the University of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were among 5 UC …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact on global carbon cycling and climate is estimated to be larger … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite, as well as sequences from the Global Ocean Virome 2.0 dataset based on open ocean samples. …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then efficiently retrieve and … the vast majority of microbes that play key roles in global biogeochemical cycles remains unexplored and …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play … the JGI Algal Program, which explores genomics of algal diversity and biology to support basic science as well as …

JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced … noted, “I would also like to offer my insights in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in STEM disciplines to …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the … to advance unique scientific knowledge and address global challenges.”  During the workshop UDE and Berkeley …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … what TFs and regulatory networks are conserved across fungi.” Using multiDAP-seq, Nagy’s team is comparing five …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common … relationship between plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), known to provide plants with nutrients and …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …

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 … below. Name: Noelle Anderson Class Year: At the time of the internship, 4th year PhD student in Quantitative and …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …