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During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science … new skills needed for their PhD research. And for the first time in this program’s history, two interns returned to …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts … to future environmental conditions. Additionally, insights from the genome could help scale sustainable sugarcane …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … the nature of this symbiosis at the cellular level — really understand how those two cell types [of two different … as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and … microalga: the diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus . At that time, they noted that the F. cylindrus genome encoded more … on microalgal communities across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome …

Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which … user facility, report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform …

… like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University and the University of … changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any given time. Microbial viruses can thus have significant impacts on …

… technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a … the third is determining the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given … experimentally verified in S. coelicolor . With results from the research, RIViT-seq data have increased the …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the … genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity to spend time out in the field, work at the lab bench, and also do …

… scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of … the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists … sequencing. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing takes much less time than its single-cell counterpart. In this approach, DNA …

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 …

What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each … our largest and most successful one. It’s proven to be a really good model for us that we try and continually … all the work that went into this program was the feedback from the graduate student interns; “it changed what I want …