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… P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user facility at Berkeley …

… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for … sequencing services and analysis—to participants. Over the past two years, Myco-Ed has been used in 15 individual … to connect educators and empower them to utilize program resources. MICROnet is  built around a community of …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … markers of sex enables scientists to develop molecular assays that can distinguish males and females even when … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … Merced. 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 of them has brought invaluable insights, thoughts, and explorations that has led …

… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, provided sequence resources — including the eelgrass genome assembly that … This study was supported by a PhD scholarship from the China Scholarship …

… Sequencing technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since … to create pipelines, tools and other standardized data resources that the global research community can access and … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, … technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Master's, Biotechnology, University of Tokyo PhD, …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research … activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first internship experience, while others further … Blurring the Line Between Plasmids and Phages …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, … his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, he directs … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by … plant roots, focusing on genetic components required for effective colonization. In addition, Dr. Cole is …