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Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace … Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … by passionate scientists working on interdisciplinary projects. I feel inspired to pursue a career in STEM. …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students … opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer … anyone in the Institute to get feedback and insights on the project and everyone’s willingness to guide or mentor me …

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 presentation skills, and participate in …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking … wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's …

… tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. … nitrogen and carbon, as well as improving the tree’s production as a biofuel feedstock. Public accessibility to the … (LANL), and DE-AC05-76RL01830 (PNNL). … BioScales project on JGI Genomes Online Database … BioScales project …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The … are also available through the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase, allowing researchers to immediately explore and … anything. The collaborative consortium behind the GROWdb project demonstrates not only how researchers can …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , … Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program . Her research project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact … major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  …

With a background in experimental and computational surface physics, Dr. Goodstein held positions at Cornell, IBM, Utah State University, and semiconductor equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the … in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome Project, he began developing larger comparative genomic …

… the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s … two undergraduate students and two graduate students from UC Merced. Cristhian Gutierrez and Bryan Rangel Alvarez are … worked with Zhong Wang’s group on an aspect of the same project assigned to Sharon and Cristhian; and, Lizhen Shi , …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program, Lawrence is now a postdoctoral … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of … partnership had become a “model” of sorts at the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to …