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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 … has brought invaluable insights, thoughts, and explorations that has led to groundbreaking science and opportunities to …
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… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the … His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new … to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the organization …
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… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel …
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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through … to stop and having responsibilities. I like the environment that JGI brings and being able to be a part of …
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… Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform hydrogenotrophic …
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… sequence. For the highly polyploid sugarcane, an international team of researchers has successfully assembled a … polyploid sugarcane genome now underway as part of the JGI Community Science Program (CSP), a critical factor in … The final sugarcane sequence generated is 382 Mb; 25,316 protein-coding gene models were predicted with more …
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… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the …
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… By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available … identified 15 core genes shared across all fungi, and found that some of these genes have moved from the mitochondria … the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. …
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… show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those nutrients, and even how quickly. … catch: SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding. The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible … researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to generate SIP data that can be useful to multiple teams and analyses. This …
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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re … have tapped into the resources and capabilities of both the JGI and the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory …
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… Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial … research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to … uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow at the Gordon …
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… a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to … with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed on decaying plant matter (saprotrophs) have … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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