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… land and the atmosphere. Microbes living there can interact with chemical defenses of plants and influence nutrient … composition varied across both sites and host tree species, with geographic site exerting the stronger influence. … summer project in the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program. In 2023, Shayna Bennett, a UC Merced graduate student in …

… WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing … unique challenges for the community. JGI is partnering with NVIDIA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to make …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, … this program’s history, two interns returned to re-engage with their mentors from the previous year and continue …

… Students can apply for internships and work onsite with an experienced researcher who serves as their mentor. … experiences.  Genomic data scientist Deanna Beatty sat down with interns hosted at the JGI through three different … Jacobs participated in the SEED Scholars @ LBNL program,  with support from  the SEED program at UC Berkeley. Sally …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, … of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a fight, but it’s an important battle to fine-tune. … the energy they store.      Since 2012, O’Malley has worked with the JGI to understand the enzymes these organisms use …

… type of food that was in the contaminated aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of … of the groundwater were nearly cleared of contamination. By 2020, the water was at contamination levels that are below … amount of what’s allowed in drinking water. However, in the deeper sites, toxic chemicals remain.  To identify the …

… — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose … Grigoriev, Fungal Genomics Program Head at the JGI.  Along with an improved understanding of multiple forest systems, … of these varied biomes; the forests share only about 20% of their fungal species. To make useful comparisons, the …

… to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams … postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed … MAGs later dubbed Saganbacteria. At the same time, working with researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean …

… two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees … down hemicellulose. The authors think this might have to do with the differences in lifestyle: honey bees need ample … and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on … at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG … She talked about her  Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant …

… one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s … home office (garage). There, standing at a safe distance, with proper face covering, was JGI’s Administrative Services … luminaries included from the Berkeley Lab Directorate, Mike Witherell (Director), Michael Brandt (Operations Deputy), …