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April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA … a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National … vector representations of proteins in order to conduct more efficient protein sequence alignments. He also aims to detect structural …

Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer … Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative …

… challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and … bioeconomy where plants are a major source of chemical production and contribute to a healthier planet and a thriving … manipulation in the laboratory. Both germplasm (sequenced mutants and natural accessions) and protocols …

Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace … Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The students’ research culminated in presentations on their work delivered during the 5th anniversary …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes … these initial efforts: Spatafora and Jason Stajich from UC Riverside would focus on broad sampling of early …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought invaluable …