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FICUS Overview
The Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative was established in … and multidisciplinary nature of DOE mission science projects, this initiative aims to encourage innovative … and selection processes, making it difficult to propose projects that truly integrated the capabilities of more than …
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JGI@25: Strengthening Soybean
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 …
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Genome‐wide scans of selection highlight the impact of biotic and abiotic constraints in natural populations of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon
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Global Diversity of the Brachypodium Species Complex as a Resource for Genome-Wide Association Studies Demonstrated for Agronomic Traits in Response to Climate
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SECONDARY WALL ASSOCIATED MYB1 is a positive regulator of secondary cell wall thickening in Brachypodium distachyon and is not found in the Brassicaceae
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Transcriptome analysis of Brachypodium during fungal pathogen infection reveals both shared and distinct defense responses with wheat
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CO2 response screen in grass Brachypodium reveals the key role of a MAP kinase in CO2-triggered stomatal closure
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Jane Grimwood Named HudsonAlpha Genomics Chair
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 …
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Examples: Successful LOIs & Submissions
Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, and Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science calls. These documents have been shared …
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Forming Scientific Connections and Building Community
This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … and also made new friends while working on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to … Mentors: Yi Zhai & John Vogel Project: Characterization of Brachypodium distachyon root transporters in …
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Uncovering Novel Genomes from Earth’s Microbiomes
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 …
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Shattering Expectations: Novel Seed Dispersal Gene Found in Green Millet
… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … Biotechnology and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … JGI group has been wonderful to collaborate with, and this [project] wouldn’t have been possible without their …
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