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CalTeach is a program for undergraduate majors interested in developing a deep understanding of STEM teaching & … pedagogy, educational theory and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, with concurrent field work in local …

… with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI researchers and collaborators work to … of SIP experiments have generated plenty of insights, many studies don’t report the information needed to reuse and … Probing Sequence (MISIP) . They differentiate between required information and terms, such as isotopes involved in an …

Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, … Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Fagnan has been the Distinguished Speaker at IBM Research in Almaden where she …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate symbiont’s … growth because they had larger genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like … entities that seek 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 virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  …

Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics … of the wider genomics community. Jan. 13 workshop: BER Plant Genomic Science In this workshop, we will present … genomic sequence information to BER funded activities of plant systems. We will describe how to apply for a project …

… of 135 fungal sequenced genomes to understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how the mutualistic associations allow host plants to acquire nutrients. The papers appeared in  Studies in Mycology and in  Nature Communications , …

… methylotrophic; and, acetoclastic. All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production known as Mcr. … found only in the archaeal lineage Euryarchaeota; recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial … these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these …

Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several … Jess Jarett, a postdoctoral fellow in Tanja Woyke’s Single Cells Group who mentored 2018 intern Akshay Paropkari, … on a 2017 Plos Biology “The JGI-UC Merced Genomics Distinguished Graduate Internship Program has been a pillar …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon … University of Texas at Austin, HudsonAlpha, and the JGI. Building off this work, researchers at three DOE Bioenergy …

… the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green … crops. Additionally, cotton is almost entirely made up of cellulose and it is a fiber model to understand the … distributed.” In the field, growers can easily distinguish the cotton species by traits such as flower color, …

… of fungi by James et al. and Sekimoto et al . In both studies, however, Olpidium was unexpectedly grouped with … for an extended period of time, which would be rather intriguing given the lack of selective pressure on retaining the … genetic material with various origins, ranging from fungi, plants to bacteria. Back in 2011 when these genome and …