Outreach at JGI takes many forms: We offer internship opportunities through working directly with specific universities, continuing education programs in the Bay Area, and established programs affiliated with the Berkeley Lab A-LIFT team.   

Overall, our aim is to inspire students and established professionals to explore opportunities in STEM by providing hands-on learning opportunities and ultimately, an understanding of the JGI’s role in enabling complex biological and environmental systems research. 

Infographic titled "2025 JGI Outreach by the Numbers" with statistics on interns, presentations, and partners, each with an icon. Below icons, three boxes with information about adopt a genome, tiny earth, and myco-ed are shown.
By the Numbers

Click to see a breakdown of our 2025 outreach efforts and achievement. 

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Special Outreach Initiatives:

Partnerships: Adopt-A-Genome
“Adopt a Genome” is an informal program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will work with undergraduates in the analysis and publication of the claimed genome sequences.
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Partnerships: Myco-Ed
The Mycological Curriculum for Education and Discovery is a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs.
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Learn more about internship programs we work with: 

University of California, Merced

The JGI and UC Merced have had a long-standing internship partnership that started in the summer of 2014.

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Alabama A&M University

Modeled on the JGI-UC Merced internship program, a similar collaboration with AAMU was launched in 2024. 

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CalTeach

The CalTeach Summer Research Institute (SRI) at UC Berkeley is a program designed to foster a profound understanding of research methodologies within the realm of education.

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Biotech Partners

Through the Berkeley Lab A-LIFT pre-college programs, the JGI has collaborated with Biotech Partners to host students transitioning from high school to community college.

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Outreach Stories
More stories about what interns and mentors are up to at the JGI