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… a close as this previously retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … I think all of you have seen that in Ray and it has been especially called on in the move to the new building where …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on … internship program was founded in 2014 with the goal of inspiring students to embark on a career in genomics, and to … Intern: Jacob Espinosa (undergraduate) Mentor: Virginia Scarlett Click the …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … user facility, report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

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

… peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants …

… work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many …

… wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he …

… and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … approved through the annual Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … (Berkeley Lab). They were selected through peer review from 41 full proposals out of 50 letters of intent …

… annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , allowing this species to grow better than its closest relative S. … our understanding of fungal diversity by sequencing genomes from across the fungal Tree of Life, but they also highlight …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be …