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… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While … UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … (and cone snails in general) outside of mostly anecdotal information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a good portion of 2016 …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, … 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 … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually …

… On July 30, 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 …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model … Marchantia  and in flowering plant lineages.   With the information about  Marchantia -specific innovations and …

… On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI … really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … individual genome highlighting the fact that the genetic information in a single reference genome is insufficient. “We …

… Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the University of British Columbia, … zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression patterns in the  Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  …

… Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … related to known methanogens. With the help of this information, the researchers found evolutionary relationships … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …