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… DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate … could be considered.” Olmstead’s project focused on the genetic mechanisms of chemotaxis in the Arabidopsis …
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… Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale … focused on stable and accurate computational methods for reacting subsurface flows, and evolved into scalable … closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in …
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… living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy. The Science Hydrothermal vents are … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and archaea. Many of the samples shared a …
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… Ancient Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … loss of cell walls and a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic …
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… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training experience funded by a DOE … project is to determine how mutations in plant transporter genes affect microbiome composition and plant growth. Under …
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… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever … isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these … Ph.D. in Marine Biology/Biochemistry, University of Delaware BA in Biology, Boston University ( magna cum …
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… Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a Bioinformatics Program Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore …
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