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Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … to predicting the ecosystem response to climate change. Through the CSP, researchers are aiming to have two high …
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April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with … Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research …
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… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … tools and data repositories to two projects funded through the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Common …
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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … He’s been involved in several plant genome projects through the Community Science Program. As a UEC member, he’s …
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UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for … UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s …
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… registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … have historically been divided into separate ecological niches — recyclers and transporters, respectively. However, … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …
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… more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis tools … by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at Berkeley Lab. …
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As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual … sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks shed light on how the JGI … of the Human Genome Project , Patrinos walked the audience through the initial conversations between Los Alamos …
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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 … undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two …
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… communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with tracings of stable, heavy isotopes, SIP allows researchers to go … SIP experiments. “I’m looking forward to seeing that come through, predicated on these data standardization efforts — …
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… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … as a stepping stone to studying many genomes simultaneously through multiDAP, which allows researchers to conduct …
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Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common … Plant. By uncovering and characterizing the mechanisms through which sorghum is equipped to deal with adverse …
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