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… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 … This award recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, development of standards …

… Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department … Intern: Sidharth Babu (undergraduate) Mentor: Zhong Wang Click the image …

… Pictured from left: [Top row]: Emily G. Aguirre, Shauna M. Bennett, Laura Bogar, Michael Borg, Rory … Henao, Yang Hai, Julia G. Harenčár, Sarah Hu; [Row 3]: Lisa Kappel, Gayan Kariyawasam; Ákos T. Kovács. Elina Laanto, … and permafrost. Their work advances genomic discoveries that can help lead to applications across critical sectors, …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces … Research was supported by grants from the USDA NIFA AFRI (1758976 to A.H. and E.S.) for …

… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week … attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, … JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or educational …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to … variations of essential genes in metabolic networks that were missed using traditional approaches. This novel …

… Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! … 6,600 researchers working in 21 fields appear on the list, and those from the JGI whose publications rank in the … was part of a long-term multi-institutional research team that combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other … traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot … bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose that eventually yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how …