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… their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has … about the big stuff, well, the little stuff! People hold office hours and you can pop in and ask them questions about …
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Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great … to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to study … vital to facilitate the assembly of small DNA fragments into larger and coherent pieces called contigs — into genes …
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A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led … collected using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) into smaller, less diverse pools before being subjected to …
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… for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes contribution of scholarship in the field of microbiology and is awarded … recognized Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and …
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