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… Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program that offered a … the mentors shared their thoughts on the students’ efforts. Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of … Here are a few of the highlights: Mario Banuelos (2017 graduate intern): Assistant Professor of Mathematics at …

… When submitting sequences to the JGI DNA Synthesis program, please include the following items: … How To Create an Annotated GenBank File There are several … open source tools for converting DNA sequence files into well-formed GenBank files. ApE is an open source desktop …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat …

… openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any … to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers studied microbial communities … the ocean through vents at temperatures that can exceed 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The minerals in these fluids include …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long history of dynamic evolution and rapid changes in … biofuels and bioproducts. ( Learn more about OGG in  this episode of to the JGI podcast Genome Insider . ) Summary A …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While … noted. “I spent a good portion of 2016 and all of 2017 looking for  C. californicus across the California-Baja … That first exposure from great interactions with Dr. Ben Cole and Dr. Axel Visel led to being co-advised by Dr. …

… This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve covered the specialized software and …

… in 2004 from the Max Planck Institute in Hanover, Germany, where he developed novel tools for large-scale in situ gene … Laboratory and as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Natural Sciences at the University of California, Merced. … served as JGI Interim Director from March 2016 – March 2017.   …

… Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship … program. (Graduated from UC Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What … intern for a second time since participating in summer 2017 ( read more here on her previous experience) has further …

… microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. We use multi-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, … and phylogenomics) and machine learning to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to find novel …

… Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial … receiving at JGI is giving me training that I am sure will benefit me for my entire career.” Rhondene Wint, UC Merced …