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During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in professional development enrichment … experience, while others further along in their academic career enjoyed the chance to develop new skills needed for …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics … Wang group has developed customized data analyses and software to enable “grand-scale” scientific projects. These … metagenome binning software … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … Ray to wear and a red carnation lei flown in from Maui, care of the Admin Group’s Terri Bartolome. What proceeded …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of … project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. …

… from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their … what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed below are the interns, their mentors, and …

… mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes …

Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, academic and professional development …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … Arising in tandem from the same ancestor, these algae are considered sisters to land plants, based on shared …

Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and …

… single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … this fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. Ti’Yanna Watson: My mentor is …