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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 of Science User … workshops, data carpentry hackathons, and also made new friends while working on their summer projects. Watch …

… The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes …

… For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a scientific journal is the ultimate achievement. To get …

… Gary Trubl is finishing his PhD in Microbiology at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Drs. Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . The global … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like …

… This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the …

… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …

… Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our … challenges. Over the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. … research and wet lab experiments, to computational modeling and virtual projects, hear intern alumni Candace Cole, …

… common set of metadata. For Steve Wilson, JGI’s Systems Engineering group lead, the Data Portal reflects a structural shift in data access. Users were previously limited to accessing … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership between JGI and the Molecular … Handling Editor, Journal Experimental Botany, 2022 – present … Scholarship, 2002 & 2004 Graduate Student Award, 59th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, …