Blog Archives - DOE Joint Genome Institute

January 12, 2023

JGI at 25: Following Fungi that Pry Apart Plant Polymers

To make fuels and chemicals from plants, we’ll need new ways of processing bark, shoots and leaves. Hear from JGI User Michelle O’Malley about the gut fungi that could be the key to better biomass breakdown. [Read More]

January 11, 2023

Exploring Possibilities: 2022 JGI-UC Merced Interns

Hear the 2022 cohort of UC Merced undergraduate and graduate students share how their summer internship experiences at the JGI have influenced their careers in science. [Read More]

January 5, 2023

JGI at 25: Using team science to build communities around data

Over the last two-and-a-half decades, the JGI has been facilitating the creation, growth and expansion of research communities by producing and sharing high-quality genomes. As our data portals grow and evolve, the research communities further expand around them. Two large scale projects have taken a different approach, with communities forming to generate high quality genomes to benefit researchers around the world. [Read More]

December 21, 2022

JGI at 25: Expanding Metagenomics to Capture Viral Diversity

Since 2016, the JGI has leveraged their work as pioneers in metagenomics to boost understanding of environmental viruses. At the time, the JGI expanded its existing Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes database to include a dedicated section for viruses; the latest release of IMG/VR currently features over 15 million viral genomes. [Read More]

November 21, 2022

JGI at 25: Cow rumen and the early days of metagenomics

The dataset from a 2011 paper identifying microbial genes in cow rumen is now used for a hands-on undergraduate research course at four universities. [Read More]

November 14, 2022

JGI at 25: Stories from Intern Alumni

Hands-on experience can be life changing for students. Hear former JGI interns share how these experiences have influenced their career journeys. [Read More]

November 3, 2022

Genome Insider S3 Episode 4: From Sample Shipments to Sequences – A Tour of the JGI’s Sequencing Pipeline

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with names — but not doors — and robots handle a bunch of benchwork. [Read More]

October 19, 2022

JGI at 25: Fueling investigation into methane-making microbes

In 2018, the JGI helped assemble the Hungate1000 catalog. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome sequence resource of rumen microorganisms. [Read More]

October 3, 2022

RECAP: 2022 Annual Meeting features historical perspectives on JGI’s 25 years

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers whose talks shed light on how the JGI was established, all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in JGI’s future. [Read More]

October 3, 2022

RECAP: Keynote Speakers Talk Innovation at 2022 JGI Annual Meeting

The JGI hosted some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our 2022 Annual Meeting: Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, Assaf Vardi of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Susan Wessler of UC Riverside. [Read More]