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… annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of the Human Genome Project, Professor … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, Computational Biology, UC Berkeley 2012 Cotton Biotechnology Award, National Cotton Council 2009 Friday Evening Lecturer, …
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… images in many regions due to more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts and floods. The planet’s … human population and increasing demand for agricultural products. Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that … to uncover the mechanisms behind sorghum’s capacity to produce high yields despite drought conditions. The field …
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… Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on the interactions … as developing synthetic biology tools that can help produce value-added products from these systems. He’s worked … that don’t spend $50 million in annual research and don’t award at least 70 research doctorates a year. Coinciding …
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… provides oversight and leadership of JGI operations infrastructure, including space and facilities, finance and … management and planning related to the JGI’s infrastructure and business functions. He acts as a resource and … and counsel regarding current DOE, national laboratory, and UC policies and procedures that have an impact on management …
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… ecologist Gilbert at the University of California (UC) San Diego, being on the UEC is an opportunity to help … at France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in October and maintains a lab at Michigan State … scientific organizations. Fungal biologist Stajich from UC Riverside sees the JGI’s open application process for …
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… Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer … Conceived by Wang and Visel, the program challenges UC Merced graduate students with individual projects at the … small fraction of a genome that contains transcribed instructions for building and maintaining cells through the use …
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… team included scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley …
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… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 … Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the … the culmination of the fifth summer of its flagship education program with UC Merced. JGI Director Nigel Mouncey …
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… Meeting, as well as input on other aspects of the meeting such as duration, location, and cost; Communicate with the … to Chair, and the Chair will become Past Chair. This structured progression establishes a multi-year leadership …
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… student. Aflatoxin, of course, is a fungal natural product which is a liver toxin when humans accidentally eat it, … have heard how a lot of us who work in fungal natural products, especially in the old days, saw how hard it was – it … an awesome job, in that respect. One of the natural product families we talk a lot about in this interview are the …
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… Phytozome, with a more intuitive interface, deployed on much more maintainable software and hardware infrastructure. Phytozome v13 has been accessible to users since … v12, and that most bookmarked v12 links (e.g., to gene reports and organism information pages) will be seamlessly …
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… Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of … JGI Director Nigel Mouncey reflected on how the JGI-UC Merced Intern partnership had become a “model” of sorts … different campuses with this being our largest and most successful one. It’s proven to be a really good model for us …
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