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… and semiconductor equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to … genomic systems as the JGI’s eukaryote research efforts expanded to include basal metazoans and plants. …

… a Single Proposal webinar, inviting researchers to apply for access to multiple genomics and molecular … just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS … more  here about the “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what …

… school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … provides the only known reference microbiome data sets for the Loxahatchee Refuge,  was published in the journal  Environmental Microbiome . “Before JGI was involved, I was not sure we could even complete …

UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for the final presentations to date.  This summer internship … and presentation skills.  “This program is so important for JGI, engaging with the UC Merced students is a fantastic …

… the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard … the researchers will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … PI on this project. “I view the program as an excellent platform to build collaborative research initiatives.” Yasuo … — and their applications — are evolving. “JGI is famous for its work sequencing human and environmental genomes. But …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive undertaking: sequencing the …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the … the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to contribute towards a diverse workforce and …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever … 2022.   A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA contained in metabolically active, membrane-bound organelles. Science  …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the …