“The integration of bona fide research and development of critical thinking skills into undergraduate education has no greater or more effective advocate than Cheryl Kerfeld,” said Kathleen Scott, an associate professor at the University of South Florida, who supported Kerfeld’s nomination for the award. Colleagues underscore that Kerfeld has pushed the envelope for education both…
A highly adaptable bacterium that can thrive alone or in symbiosis
Variovorax paradoxus is a β-proteobacterium typically found in the region where the plant roots interact with soil and has the ability to engage in mutually beneficial interactions with both plants and other bacterial species. The bacterium also has the ability to break down a wide range of contaminants including pesticides and crude oil compounds, and…
Berkeley Lab’s requirements for second campus in San Francisco Business Times
Lawrence Berkeley Lab late Monday laid out the details for a new second campus. It is looking to consolidate facilities like the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland and the Life Sciences Division in West Berkeley. Read more in the…
DOE JGI’s CSP projects in GenomeWeb Daily News
JGI said its action follows the exponential increase of its sequence output in recent years. Just over the past year, the institute’s sequencing output has leapt to 6 terabytes, up from 1 terabyte at the end of the 2009 fiscal year.“We’re really interested in undertaking projects that either require specific upfront molecular biology, very large…
DOE JGI in Science’s Insights of the Decade
Edward Rubin and Len Pennacchio of the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, and colleagues figured out that some of this conserved DNA helps regulate genes, sometimes from afar, by testing it for function in transgenic mouse embryos. Studies by the group and others suggested that noncoding regions were littered with much more regulatory…
Plant pathogen genomes on PhysOrg
The project to sequence the genomes of Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora sojae started in 2002. The sequencing of Phytophthora ramorum represented the fastest sequencing of a newly emerged pathogen other than the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus; Phytophthora ramorum was identified in 2000 and its draft sequence was complete by 2004. The work, which was…
Making Science’s Insights of the Decade list – twice
The December 17 issue of Science includes a special feature called “Insights of the Decade” and two of them feature work done by DOE JGI researchers. (Note: Free registration is required to read the articles online.) Genome research features prominently in Science’s Insights of the Decade list. (DNA helix image by DS from Flickr via…
Breaking the Petabit barrier, a Tweet at a time
Earlier this year, the DOE JGI teamed with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to scale up its computing infrastructure to meet increasing user needs and the rising amount of data being generated. ESnet traffic map by Jon Dugan, ESnet Network Engineering Group, LBNL On Dec. 14, the…
DOE JGI’s genomics data volumes on ESNet Updates
We observed for the first time significant volumes of genomics data traversing the network as the Joint Genome Institute sent over 1 petabyte of data to NERSC. JGI alone accounted for about 10% of last month’s traffic volume. Read more on ESNet.
Walnut Creek’s former city manager on the DOE JGI in the WalnutCreekPatch
“I recently had the opportunity to visit the Joint Genome facility [in the Shadelands]. It sort of flies under the radar. What was mind boggling was how the power of the equipment has multiplied so much in nine years. They said the problem they now have is managing the mountains of data they’re getting. They’re…