The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is December 10-14, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Representatives from the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 847 in the Exhibit Hall (near the Career Center) – stop by and chat with… [Read More]

Eleven of the JGI’s researchers are among the most highly cited in the world. That’s according to the annual list compiled by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters. (Click here to see the full list.) The 2018 list focused on Highly Cited Papers, defined in the Methodology section as “those… [Read More]

On November 15, 2018, at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC18) Conference, teams led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), respectively, shared the 2018 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. Congratulations to JGI’s Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan, who was part of the ORNL-led,… [Read More]

Nanoreactor is a key enzyme in CO2-fixation cycle. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a potent greenhouse gas, and an accessible carbon source that could be converted into high-value products such as biofuels and renewable chemicals. Tobi Erb, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany and his team focus on identifying novel… [Read More]

For more than a dozen years, Dr. Daniel Drell served as the JGI program manager at the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), in the Biological Systems Science Division (BSSD). After 30 years in government service, most of that time with the BER, he retired in September. Before he stepped down, he reflected on… [Read More]

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 celebration of the internship program. [Read More]

Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with Biotech Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, academic and professional development experiences that increase participation in higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School… [Read More]

Gary Trubl is finishing his PhD in Microbiology at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Drs. Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories. My dissertation work is on characterizing soil viruses via viral metagenomics (viromics)… [Read More]

When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. Why take on high school students instead of… [Read More]

From September 17-21, 2018, we introduce you to some of the postdocs at the JGI in honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, which recognizes the contributions of these early career researchers. Through a series of hard-hitting questions, we find out what drives each one.  What do you work on?  With Esther Singer from the JGI… [Read More]