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]

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]

How long have you collaborated with the JGI and on which projects? I’ve been working with the JGI for about ten years now. To date, all of our work has focused on some aspect of life in terrestrial geothermal springs, mostly Great Boiling Spring in northeast Nevada. These projects have included work on both microbial… [Read More]

Departments of Microbiology, and Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Collaborated with JGI since 2001 How long have you collaborated with the JGI and on which projects? Since 2009 as head of my own lab, and since 2001 as a PhD student (with Penny Chisholm at MIT) working on the initial marine Prochlorococcus and… [Read More]

Jillian Banfield, PhD is a prominent geomicrobiologist and biochemist, a UC Berkeley Professor, a Berkeley Lab Earth Sciences Division staff scientist, and a long time user of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s resources through the Community Science Program (CSP) and the Emerging Technologies Opportunities Program (ETOP). In this short interview, Jill shares her perspective how… [Read More]

CIFAR Scholar and Associate Professor, University of British Columbia Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Life Sciences Institute I have collaborated with the JGI since 2002 before the CSP program came online. These collaborations have spanned my postdoctoral years with Ed DeLong [now at MIT: http://cee.mit.edu/delong] and my time as an independent investigator at the University of British Columbia. In… [Read More]

Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia  Collaborated with JGI since 2007 We have been working with JGI on metatranscriptomic studies, using gene expression data to link activity, taxonomy, and function within marine microbial communities; and on model organism studies of bacteria-phytoplankton interactions in the ocean. The goal of our research is to identify… [Read More]

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator, University of North Carolina, John N. Couch Professor of Biology Collaborated with JGI since 2008 My lab has been engaged with JGI on a long-range project looking at the complex network of life of the microbiome that inhabits the rhizosphere and endosphere —the niches immediately surrounding and inside a plant’s root. Science… [Read More]

Professor of Bacteriology, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, McMahon Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison Collaborated with JGI since 2005 We have worked together on projects related to sewage treatment and freshwater lakes. Activated sludge wastewater treatment processes are used throughout the world to purify trillions of gallons of sewage annually. Many treatment plants employ specialized… [Read More]

Miranda Harmon-Smith is in her ninth year at JGI, having started as a technician on the Sanger sequencing line before moving up, first to supervisor, then ultimately joining the PMO in 2012. It was her second “real” job after three years doing brain tumor research at the University of California, San Francisco and following her… [Read More]