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Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can …

… 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 … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

… of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes do, how they work, and applying … and her own as an early career researcher. “We were able to study hydrocarbon biosynthesis at a scale that would …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI … in industry or academia. It was also a great opportunity to study and learn something totally new during my Ph.D. What … Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What effect has your summer …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent … P. hallii Mutant Library … Evaluation of Binning Tools for Microbial Eukaryotes in Metagenomes … Functional exploration of Phage Impact on Microbial Root … Cross Species Comparison of Plant …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders with insights … important cattle feed crop,” noted David Stelly, another study co-author at Texas A&M University. “This report …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on … Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial molecular biology Post-doctoral positions  – …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …

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 …

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 …