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… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

… This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 … gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in not only their work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and …

… They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their survival secrets could one day help … are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how … Steve Singer are harnessing the versatile bacterium Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a … research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

… series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the … with the assembler program MetaHipMer2. Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running …

… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, with some artistic endeavors along the …

… Berkeley is responsible for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work focuses on the development of new applications utilizing a variety of technologies to improve the JGI’s capabilities in the areas of metagenomics, …

… TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …