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… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse genetics to test those hypotheses. From 2011 – 2015, she … PhD, Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida NIH Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA …
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… Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; [middle] Sundy Maurice, Bridget … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel …
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… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to …
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… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and … Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi …
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… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and …
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… Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay … their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has …
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… There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their … rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage …
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… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … in Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of …
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… As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s … went on to explain that the JGI’s very first project — the revolutionary work of the human genome project, which spanned …
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… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea …
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… anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and …
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… Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass …
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