Sneha Couvilion, Chris Schadt and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks join eight other JGI users already serving on the User Executive Committee.
JGI Contributes Eight to 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list
Congratulations to the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers from the JGI recognized for their “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by Clarivate Analytics.
Genome Insider S4 Episode 8: The Megadata of Lake Mendota – Part 3: Boating Out to David Buoy
This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. This episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem.
Eelgrass proves to be much younger than we thought
JGI-enabled research shows eelgrass began colonizing oceans over 2.5 million years more recently than previously thought.
Genome Insider S4 Episode 7: The Megadata of Lake Mendota – Part 2: Souped Up Computing
This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In this episode: a look at the supercomputing that stitches together large datasets with the assembler program MetaHipMer2.
Oak Ridge National Lab is home to two supercomputers — Summit and Frontier — that process terabytes of data with MetaHipMer2. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running smaller MetaHipMer assemblies — so we head there for a sense of what this supercomputing looks like.
Back in the Lab: the 2023 Summer Intern Experience
There were 25 interns in the Summer 2023 cohort, which was the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and JGI researchers alike.
JGI announces 2023 CSP Functional Genomics awardees
Through the JGI CSP Functional Genomics call, we look for projects that will leverage the JGI’s DNA synthesis and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function.
Genome Insider S4 Episode 6: The Megadata of Lake Mendota – Part 1: Many, Many Mers
Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon’s lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.
So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.
The next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible.
Natural Prodcast Episode 24 – Jackie Winter and SMC
Natural Prodcast focuses on the JGI Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory (SMC), a new data portal for natural product biosynthetic gene clusters.
Genome Insider S4 Episode 5: Experimenting with EcoFABs for Student Labs – Jill Bouchard & Ying Wang
To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos College to see EcoFabs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course.