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A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … plant biologist at West Virginia University (WVU), led the study’s international team, which included scientists from …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced … develop presentation skills as well as build their network in the field of genomics and scientific research. The topics … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project … … Fungal & Algal Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user …

… participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … they’re not as reliable on amino acid sequences.) Sevim is currently using HMM profiles of protein domains from …

This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New Orleans and online. Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): …

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … project, does the data produced become public as well? A:  Currently NEON doesn’t have a method for hosting that data. …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … first version of the  IMG Plasmid Resource (IMG/PR) , which currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … The team sequenced and assembled a 473-million basepair genome of the common bean, identifying genes related to …

… of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for scientific applications developed at Berkeley Lab. Dr. Chen is currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at the … in an Academic Setting, SSDBM 14, July 2014 … Selected Publications …