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… summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … and Frederik Schulz, Structure Prediction to Annotate Novel Viruses: the Case of Polintoviruses Josue Duque and mentor …

Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program allows scientists access to multiple user facilities … State University (short talk): “Predators of the Deep: virus-host dynamics in the terrestrial subsurface” 2pm …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers … around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how … together.  The next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at …

… for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national … DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program. In service of solutions that will impact society, …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the … Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, …

… focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome Project, he began … basal metazoans and plants. Working with a talented team of scientists and software engineers, Dr. Goodstein …

… using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

Marianne is an affiliate researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …

While summer interns at the JGI from multiple programs had their own goals to achieve, they constantly collaborated with each other on new ways of presenting and researching science. …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both …   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. Since …