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… using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study …

… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a … and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez are both  California …

… and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates …

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 … microscopic algae have managed to adapt to a unique set of conditions in polar waters, including vast shifts in …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … hone science presentation skills, and participate in professional development enrichment activities. For some … Merced internship program was founded in 2014 with the goal of inspiring students to embark on a career in genomics and …