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… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI … two interns returned to re-engage with their mentors from the previous year and continue working on their …

… Select interns look back on meaningful lessons from their summer experiences at the JGI Berkeley Lab offers … in the SEED Scholars @ LBNL program,  with support from  the SEED program at UC Berkeley. Sally Liao came in … at the Joint Genome Institute, they interacted with interns from other programs and participated in onsite enrichment …

… host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material directly from samples sidesteps these challenges, since it doesn’t … Nikos Kyrpides at the JGI led a team that combed datasets from around the world, finding over 125,000 partial and … The new database was called IMG/VR. It featured samples from different ecosystems all over the world, including …

… proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from reseachers who translate genomic information into … advancing the bioeconomy.  This year’s project goals range from improving crop productivity for bioenergy through …

… to view downloadable pdfs of previous Progress Reports from the Joint Genome Institute.  …

… maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … has extended the possible virophage genome size range from 13.8-29.3 kilobases (Kb) to 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, “we …

… in science and research, two undergraduate students from UC Merced recently had summer internships in Walnut … CAMP students who earned outstanding research awards. From the 99 students who attended, representing 9 UC … students and the amazing mentorship they receive from our faculty.” Cristhian and Bryan interned with Zhong …

… Pictured from left: [Top row]: Emily G. Aguirre, Shauna M. Bennett, …   Each year, the JGI solicits novel research projects from PIs who have not led any previously accepted … microbial and plant metabolism across diverse ecosystems — from Antarctic soils and Icelandic hydrothermal systems to …

… While summer interns at the JGI from multiple programs had their own goals to achieve, they …

… Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  … CRISPR-Cas systems to recognize and remove invaders’ DNA from their own genomes. One of these systems, the …

… soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual … Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, then tested for heat and pH stress by …