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… This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the … and also made new friends while working on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to …

… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … hope JGI and other institutions continue to do this kind of projects.” The work also used resources of the  National …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … City. Grimwood is also co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center. Grimwood heads the Library … after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford Human …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … evolution and rapid changes in both genome content and structure following a genome duplication event that occured … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of the terpene synthase gene family across eucalypt lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of … assembly of two Corymbia citriodora subspecies variegata genomes allowed researchers to study the conservation and …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The Impact … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …

… Massie S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Through multi-platform … science, including crafting technical reports, developing educational content, and writing feature profiles. She is one … Massie Ballon is the JGI's Communications and Outreach Manager. Click …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship … Cross Species Integration of Single Cell Transcriptomes …

… JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed … human chromosomes. After successful completion of the Human Genome Project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team has continued to … AB in Physics, Princeton University, NJ MS in Theoretical Physics, Cornell …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has … source of both protein and oil was also the largest plant project completed by the JGI. It has since been cited more …

… To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …