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… his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start … challenges UC Merced graduate students with individual projects at the DOE JGI that provide hands-on experience in …

… technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by … included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The … Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … anything. The collaborative consortium behind the GROWdb project demonstrates not only how researchers can …

As an Integrative Genome Science User Facility, the JGI plays a leadership role in enabling the frontiers of research related to DOE’s missions in bioenergy, … the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, Secondary Metabolites, and DNA …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was … many sequenced through the JGI 1000 Fungal Genomes Project.       Francis Martin on the main impact of …

Take a virtual tour of the IGB, home of the DOE Joint Genome Institute. To navigate virtual tours of each floor, … out. 1st floor 2nd floor 3rd and 4th Floors The JGI mural on the 3rd floor whimsically references dozens of iconic JGI contributions to advancing the frontiers of …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes and transcriptomes could help inform efforts at …

… understanding of our role in advancing the energy and environmental genomics research frontier.  Learn more about the JGI's activities in this … Outreach Initiatives: … The JGI and UC Merced have had a long-standing internship partnership that started in the …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Welcome back to Natural Prodcast! … so, so cheap to sequence. Right now, for our particular projects, we’re not doing that right now, but we might. I …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other … 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science … of genomes from uncultivated microbes (Nature 2019). Other projects in the group include the sequencing and comparative …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s … at a high level as JGI transitioned from the Human Genome Project to gaining momentum as a national user facility. He …

Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research scientist on …