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The JGI aims to inspire more students to enter the STEM workforce by fostering an understanding of our role in advancing the energy and environmental … internship partnership that started in the summer of 2014. … Modeled on the JGI-UC Merced internship program, …

With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost plant-microbe …

… data modeling, and biological data management. She was one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol … for the data management infrastructure of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) family of systems. Before joining … in an Academic Setting, SSDBM 14, July 2014 … Selected Publications …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … genomes to a diploid state while retaining multiple copies of some genes. This polyploidization process is ongoing and …