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… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the … data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some … were two undergraduate students and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez …

… interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and cultivated microbes, … researchers have been able to gain further insights about how microbes have adapted to thrive in polar ecosystems. … lacusprofundi . To do this, water samples were collected from the Rauer 1 and Club lakes in East Antarctica and …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization … tons . The global chocolate brands couldn’t exist without cocoa.  But today the plant is under threat due to … by HudsonAlpha scientists, with the help of funding from Mars Wrigley. The annotated genome has been updated to …

… researchers to discover novel lineages of life and move from the identification of microbial novelty to assigning … and archaea revealed by a recent genome census . A key outcome will be a a compelling position paper, and we are … to assign functional “read out” to sequence data. Moving from cataloging microbial diversity to experimental …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI … two interns returned to re-engage with their mentors from the previous year and continue working on their … a diverse future workforce in science. To learn more about each intern’s experience during their internship, check …

… the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led … tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then … shotgun metagenomics approach to learning more about environmental samples starts with researchers first …

… and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look …

… Select interns look back on meaningful lessons from their summer experiences at the JGI Berkeley Lab offers … programs – some managed by the Lab – to learn more about their experiences. Jehan Jacobs participated in the SEED Scholars @ LBNL program,  with support from  the SEED program at UC Berkeley. Sally Liao came in …