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… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … why it’s so hard to succeed, and we talk about an ongoing project I’ve been working with him on as an exploration into … So, this was when we started saying, we have to have the genomes. We have to look at the full picture of these. And …

In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused on … joint appointments as a Deputy Director at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley …

… staff of the JGI events are required to adhere to the following Code of Conduct. Event organizers will enforce this Code … are expected to be familiar with this policy. Our aim in hosting an event is to build a stronger community. Our goal is …

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 …

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 … the microalga,  Asterochloris glomerata . To see how gene expression changes when living together versus apart, the team …

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

Take a virtual tour of the IGB, home of the DOE Joint Genome Institute. To navigate virtual tours of each floor, click …

JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or genome, which underlies physical features and functions. … Program (CSP) focuses on a fungal comparative ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that …

The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the ancestor to eelgrass underwent a whole genome duplication event, doubling all of its chromosomes.  …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, … scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … — but the experts we were able to work with on this project to ask questions about structure and function,” …

Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in … 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 …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … 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 …