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… (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE … result of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of … also serve as a mentor for another SCGSR awardee, Ian Rambo from Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas-Austin. …

Nandita is involved in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA input without amplification. …

… symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata … of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and Oregon. The cuttings included genotypes from the DOE BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), predecessor …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved … found that these enzymes have evolved distinctly from both core and specialized enzymes. Even during … across 90 species. They queried the genomes of 15 species from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, protist, …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to … it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available bacterial and … gene clusters and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( …

… learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of … class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant … predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using …

… the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Prior to this role, she served as the primary storyteller and … Ms. Ballon has a degree in molecular biology & biochemistry from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle … team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a symbiont of the …

Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech … that increase participation in higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October … zero waste effort at the IGB. “Sustainable Berkeley Lab is really gearing towards getting us to zero waste …

The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The … and what they do. Summary The name PhycoCosm stems from the Greek phykos, meaning seaweed. Seaweeds are algae, … data are available, a user can also analyze gene expression from published experiments; study DNA methylation, which …