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… Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … before. Seeing the breadth of interesting work being done at the JGI has really motivated me to think outside of … my work. The experience has inspired me to incorporate powerful bioinformatic tools to my research interests during …

… their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … genomes to a diploid state while retaining multiple copies of some genes. This polyploidization process is ongoing and …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the … the transcription factor proteins from a DNA template amplified directly from either genomic DNA or complementary …

… by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … (PNNL). Researchers have the opportunity to combine the power of genomics and molecular characterization offered at …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … . By contrast, using a different endophytic fungus,  Ilyonectria europaea , had no effect on growth. Liao’s team … optimize characteristics like growth rate. Harnessing that power could help usher widespread use of biofuel as a …

… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … a joint research call. Submitted proposals addressed one of the following focus topic areas: Biofuels and … offer a breadth of characterization and analytical power, researchers are not expected to be expert users on …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta Gribaldo of the Institut Pasteur in France, the …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers … have been generated using techniques that the JGI has pioneered, including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … is difficult. Proteins are tiny, invisible to even the most powerful light microscope, and fickle, often hiding their … Communications takes on the challenge of understanding one of these proteins — and its role in photosynthesis — in …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 … well from across the globe via their laptops or even smartphones. This year’s three-day conference featured keynote … Doudna , UC Berkeley “We soon realized that we had a powerful tool.” Keynote Talk Title: CRISPRology — The …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over … a senior author of the paper. “This paper is the first one to survey a huge amount of natural diversity and say, …

… JGI’s  MycoCosm data portal , an interactive collection of sequenced fungal genomes, omics data and comparative … asked and whether they are within DOE mission areas of bioenergy, carbon cycling, and biogeochemistry. This is a … team. 26.  Q: For many of these imported genomes, you mentioned they are filtered , what does/will this filtering …