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… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs … currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. To lower barriers to …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from … in industry or academia. It was also a great opportunity to study and learn something totally new during my Ph.D. What …

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 … can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … National Laboratory, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Duke University, published their research … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …

A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, Philip Benfey … University and Uwe Ohler at   Humboldt Universität zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression … by neighboring cells in these processes.   One of the study’s co-authors is  Benjamin Cole , a research scientist …

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 … what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a group of plants in the Agave family with …

Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National … an artificial environment. It is particularly helpful for studying physiological and biochemical processes driving the …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific journal is the ultimate achievement. To get …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are … plant biologist at West Virginia University (WVU), led the study’s international team, which included scientists from …

Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute …