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… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually … hone science presentation skills, and participate in professional development enrichment activities. For some … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship …

… Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program … Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … Systems group. Tringe’s research group focuses on the roles of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … genetic traits of the viruses to better understand their roles and potential impacts. The work is supported by NIH …

… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  … before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. … climate. They may also provide a basic understanding of the roles microbiomes play in determining the behavior of the …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … I’ll take that knowledge back with me.” Now a second-year evolutionary biology student in David Ardell’s lab, he also …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … planet’s microbial diversity is key to understanding the roles of microorganisms in regulating nutrient cycles, as …

… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has … technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Master's, Biotechnology, University of Tokyo …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … science.  Dr. Sneddon is an accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Biochemistry, University of Delaware BA in Biology, Boston University ( magna cum …

… Specializing in mass spectrometry-centered projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and integrating mathematics and chemistry for … BS – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Chemical Engineering Ph. D. – Arizona State University, Tempe, Chemical …