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… UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has … so nice and helpful.”     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and really open to talking about their work. It’s fun to be around people who are …

… provides bioinformatics tools and analysis support for user science, with a focus on metagenomes. Passionate about automation and collaboration, she works to develop and …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and an FRQNT Team grant to C.L. The analyses were conducted using Digital Research Alliance of Canada-Compute Canada …

… Kyrpides , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . The following guest … have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  But for researchers who study viruses that infect organisms much smaller than humans, like …

… sequences from six hypersaline lakes, researchers focused on understanding the genomic variation in haloarchaea … the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, microbial ecologist Rick Cavicchioli and his … The work has been enabled through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) . Cavicchioli and his team compared two …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This year, the 12th JGI-UC Merced cohort … One of the mentors, postdoc Yumary Vasquez, was herself a program alum from the 2022 cohort.  The UC Merced interns … video below to see what some of the interns had to say about their time at the lab. …

… going forward. Watch this short video (below) to hear more about the summer from their own perspectives. The interns … JGI mentors are listed below, along with their project focus areas: Undergraduate Interns Andrew Lin and mentor Vy … Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns …

… have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … most widespread type of mycorrhizal fungi, live within a plant’s root system. They form mutually beneficial … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have …

… is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. The fungus  Phakopsora pachyrhizi … of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French … soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome sequence in …

… be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually … explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have never been studied … which is a process analogous to photosynthesis for plants.” Another outstanding question is whether the new …

… ultimate achievement. To get to this point requires rigorous research, written skill, above all else, determination. … the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program and current PhD student, reached this milestone with … Grigoriev at the JGI strongly influenced her perspective about what it means to be a scientist. “To see how team …