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… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative, Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of … award (DBI-1652164, 1933521), the Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical Research Enhancement Funds as part of a …
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… In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to … JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and …
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… shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha … is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences …
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… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took … has since been extended statewide. In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan …
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… The Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area Entrepreneurship Program presents… Eyes on the Prize – Launching & Sustaining Startups in Synthetic Biology Who’s Invited? All Berkeley Lab Employees and Affiliates. When: August 29th, 3:00 pm – 5:30 … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …
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… Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, which encodes a single protein. Gene … article. The research team included scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, …
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… Mr. Rath has been leading the Systems Infrastructure Team at the JGI since 2020. Before … stops at NERSC, IMBA (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna) and the High Field MRI Centre in Vienna, where he …
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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of nutrients in these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users …
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… On November 3, 2021, the JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National … Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) Ian Blaby for the JGI …
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… Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. … work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and David …
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… Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene families … thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort M. …
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… Gary Trubl is finishing his PhD in Microbiology at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Drs. Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at …
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