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Nikos Kyrpides Named 2018 ASM USFCC/J. Roger Porter Awardee

Congratulations to Nikos Kyrpides, JGI’s Prokaryote Super Program head, who was recently selected as the 2018 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award recipient by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). This award recognizes outstanding efforts by a scientist who has demonstrated the importance of microbial biodiversity through sustained curatorial or stewardship activities for a major resource by… [Read More]

A Social Science Experience

2017 Summer Interns Share Highlights of their time at JGI In 2017, JGI hosted 15 summer interns ranging from high schoolers through graduate school. Many of the students came to the JGI through ongoing partnerships dedicated toward training the next generation of scientific talent. Two of the high school students are among the Biotech Partners… [Read More]

Scaling Microbial Genomics Discoveries for Ecosystem Modeling

Nutrient availability in model wetlands helps regulate microbial metabolism and soil carbon cycling rates The Science Studying microbial communities in San Joaquin Delta rice fields, researchers linked microbial metabolism and nutrient availability to soil carbon cycling rates. The Impact Establishing the inter-relationships among microbial metabolism, nutrient availability and soil carbon cycling rates is critical to… [Read More]

C. Titus Brown, University of California, Davis

How long have you collaborated with the JGI? I’m just starting my first partnership with JGI soon, but I’ve been working as part of larger JGI collaborations for about 15 years. I also worked with Jim Tiedje and Janet Jansson on the Great Prairie Grand Challenge soil sequencing project, which started about 10 years ago… [Read More]

DOE User Facilities Partner for Greater Scientific Impact

EMSL and DOE JGI announce FY 2018 FICUS projects Two Department of Energy user facilities, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), have selected 14 proposals from a joint call for 2018 research under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative. This was the fifth FICUS call between EMSL… [Read More]

Defining Standards for Genomes from Uncultivated Microorganisms

Expanding minimum information standards for single-cell genomics, metagenomics datasets. During the Industrial Revolution, factories began relying on machines rather than people for mass production. Amidst the societal changes, standardization crept in, from ensuring nuts and bolts were made identically to maintain production quality, to a standard railroad gauge used on both sides of the Atlantic…. [Read More]

Tracking Microbial Succession in Petroleum Wells

Offshore subsurface reservoirs demonstrate human impacts on well microbiomes. The Science Microbes are invisible to the naked eye, but play key roles in maintaining the planet’s biogeochemical cycles. In the Earth’s subsurface, microbes have adapted to thrive in the relatively stable extreme conditions. To learn more about how some of these populations respond to disruptions… [Read More]

FY2018 ETOP Call for Letters of Intent

Letters of Intent are being solicited for the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) 2018 award. Potential offerors must electronically submit a Letter of Intent through the DOE JGI’s proposal submission system. Letters of Intent need to be received by August 30, 2017. For examples of accepted ETOP proposals,… [Read More]

Rod Wing, Arizona Genomics Institute

How long have you collaborated with the JGI? It’s probably been about ten years. We’ve been doing these high molecular weight DNA for a few projects and now through the ETOP program, we’re providing high molecular weight substrates for whole genome sequencing and for genotyping of various JGI Flagship Plant Genomes, and in support of… [Read More]

Mining Eukaryotic Data for Protein Families

Despite decades of work by structural biologists, there are still ~5,200 protein families with unknown structure outside the range of comparative modeling. It has recently been shown that this gap can be largely reduced if Rosetta structure prediction pipeline is augmented with residue-residue contacts inferred from evolutionary information. Such significant boost in the number of… [Read More]