Providing the infrastructure for tackling energy, environmental challenges. Every year, Earth Day reminds us to continue to provide a cleaner, healthier and sustainable environment for everyone to live in. For those of us who work at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) though, every day is Earth Day as our resources… [Read More]

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from UC Merced recently had summer internships in Walnut Creek. [Read More]

Millions of researchers worldwide publish millions of papers. Thomson Reuters compiles a Highly Cited Researchers database, listing based on the number of citations their work has received from fellow researchers. Among the factors that play into the database is the Essential Science Indicators in Web of Science, which tracks papers published in the past decade that rank in the… [Read More]

JGI will be sharing a booth (#202) at The Plant and Animal Genome XXIV Conference (PAG) in San Diego from Sunday, January 10 through Tuesday, January 12, 2016 with our colleagues from KBase: The Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase. Also, on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 from 4:00-6:10 pm in the San Diego Room, join us… [Read More]

The JGI/UCM Genomics Graduate Distinguished Graduate Internship Program is a program for graduate students at the University of California, Merced (UCM), to spend the summer in labs at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). It is jointly sponsored by the two institutions. The objectives of this program are to: Introduce students to emerging genomics technologies… [Read More]

As part of the ongoing diversity & inclusion efforts at the JGI, the Diversity & Inclusion Working Group developed a poster asking people to “RAISE the Standard“: Respect. Act as a mentor. Include Everyone. Support a healthy work-life balance. Encourage risk-taking. The new poster will be placed in the conference rooms. [Read More]

Tanja Woyke, head of our Microbial Program, was one of the honorees at Berkeley Lab’s 2015 Women @ The Lab, held November 18, 2015. She was among 14 women selected from labwide nominations in the following categories: Postdoctoral Fellow Early/Mid-Career Scientist or Engineer Senior Scientists or Engineer Operations Professional Administrative Professional Technician Click here to read about Dr. Woyke… [Read More]

In observance of Veterans Day 2015, Erika Lindquist, our Sequencing QA/QC Group Lead who served in Iraq as a member of the California Army National Guard, appeared in a video produced by Berkeley Lab. She spoke about her deployment to Iraq, and most importantly, the lessons she has applied to life after military service. Watch Erika’s video at… [Read More]

In the midst of a historic drought, the U.S. Department of Energy is funding a $12.3 million project in California to examine how environmental factors influence heritable changes in gene expression in one particular crop. The Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum, or EPICON, focuses on understanding how sorghum, a grass related to corn,… [Read More]