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… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable …

… (thermophilic) microbes are of interest for their potential use in number of biotechnological applications. Molecular … technology that enables researchers to generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence … into the evolution of life on Earth. For decades, longtime JGI collaborator Bill Inskeep of Montana State University …

… Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research …

… New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle …

… in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 …

… Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments …

… higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School this …

… And their survival secrets could one day help other organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… sequences from six hypersaline lakes, researchers focused on understanding the genomic variation in haloarchaea … applications. The work has been enabled through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) . Cavicchioli and his … and secondary replicons that are highly variable but organized in blocks, or “islands,” suggesting that the …

… Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for …