As part of Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos’ Diversity & Inclusion Initiative, our own Steve Wilson served as a Lab science ambassador to the National Society of Black Engineers’ (NSBE) 41st Annual Convention on March 25-29, 2015 in Anaheim, CA. Wilson was part of a delegation including representatives from the Workforce Development & Education and Human Resources… [Read More]

“What I’ve found over the last nine years working in a more liberal and diverse environment at the JGI is that there are huge benefits from diversity in the workplace, the main one being that you just simply get better ideas with a more diverse group of people within your department or organization.” Our Operations… [Read More]

On Friday, February 20, first-year Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, whose 11th District spans from Antioch in east Contra Costa County to Richmond in the west, visited the landmark energy and environmental genomics user facility at his District’s geographic center, the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek. The Representative and his staffer Pat Joyce met with… [Read More]

Have questions about or plan to submit a Letter of Intent to the DOE JGI-EMSL Collaborative Science Initiative? Now is your chance to learn more about these national scientific user facilities funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the collaborative science capabilities they offer the global research community. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and… [Read More]

SESSION TITLE: Novel Technologies for Exploring the Uncultivated Microbial Majority WHEN: 1:00pm on Friday, February 13, 2015 WHERE: Room LL20C (San Jose Convention Center) Susannah Tringe and Tanja Woyke, the respective heads of our Metagenome and Microbial Programs, have organized a session at this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Meeting, which… [Read More]

  Current CAMI Schedule for Participants: March 27, 2015 “Challenge Part I” opens: Read data sets posted for assembly and read based profiling/binning May 8, 2015 Deadline for “Challenge Part I,” Assemblies May 9, 2015 “Challenge Part II” opens: Gold standard assemblies posted for contig-based profiling/binning May 27-29, 2015 1st CAMI Evaluation Meeting. Details: http://cami-challenge.org/evaluation_meeting June 19, 2015 Deadline… [Read More]

The annual JGI Holiday Food Drive of 2014 brought nearly a ton of food to the the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. Over half of the total came from the family of software developer Bobby Otillar, who pledged to match the amount of food donated by fellow JGIers pound-for-pound for the third year in a row. This… [Read More]