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… genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in … first paper that describes sorghum’s response to drought, from a large-scale field experiment to uncover the … the leaves. Each week the team would set up a makeshift lab powered by a generator at the KARE field site and then …

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from UC Merced recently had summer internships in Walnut …

Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one …

This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and … work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… result of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of … Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … a remarkable opportunity to launch a pilot project and begin the work of understanding how engineered environments …

… how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

… of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to … through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and … Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  … genomes. One of these systems, the CRISPR-Cas9 system, is a powerful tool in gene editing, but many other systems exist. …

… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant … a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in … on microalgal communities across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome …