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… starts with a User Agreement — before any work can begin, including the submission of samples for sequencing, or the … will replace the active version. For researchers with a Howard Hughes Medical Institution (HHMI) appointment, a version …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … Data Collaborative’s EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s ecosystems, … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders with insights … it stands the test of time and is considered the gold standard by the world cotton community. This is one such example.” …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … separately from each other. A possible explanation, according to the authors, lies in their finding that each lichen …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …

In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on … his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a rare … of the first mouse models for this common neurological disorder. In 1999, he was named a DOE Alexander Hollaender …

A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey … by neighboring cells in these processes.   One of the study’s co-authors is  Benjamin Cole , a research scientist … with his DOE  Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award, which is also focused on single-cell and spatial …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This … a group of plants in the Agave family with fleshy, sword-like leaves, often with spikes along their edges. …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … Delta wetland pond, cycle carbon. Using plots at the Harvard Forest long-term warming experiment, Kristen DeAngelis of … the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific … Evolution . “It’s my first publication and it feels so rewarding,” Wint said. For Axel Visel, JGI Science Deputy and a …

In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer internship experiences have influenced their careers in … they overcame, and what new skill sets they look forward to taking back to school.  The interns from this cohort …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … i.e., XY instead of XX. But, like some plant and songbird species, the system in shrub willow is flipped: females … plant biologist at West Virginia University (WVU), led the study’s international team, which included scientists from …