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… from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in … year and continue working on their research project! The JGI-UC Merced internship program was founded in 2014 with …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. … gut. To better understand the dynamics of this molecule, researchers developed the first chemiluminescent biosensors … cyclic di-GMP in bacteria through work enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) . The Impact Cyclic …

… hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that while … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted … by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders …

… led the development of an integrated platform for tracking JGI's sequencing projects and data warehousing. This … streamlines project management, laboratory information tracking, and enables efficient analysis and reporting of … Mr. Shahab has extensive experience in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), bioinformatics, and genomics …

… decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise gene targeting in the genome in the … also simplifies metabolic modeling and pathway optimization for enhanced lipid production. Also notable, researchers found it is missing 33 genes thought essential …

… Trubl, a virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are … growth rates, decomposition, and carbon sequestration. Researchers wanted to better understand how sphagnum adapts …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to … findings could help us grow better crops, with less impact on our planet. …

… Gary Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the …