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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the University of Oslo, Aaron Robinson of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Rebecca Smith of the University of Wisconsin, Maggie Sogin of the University of …

… to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … research at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and her graduate …

… Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging … Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley. Dr. Pennacchio received his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a rare …

…   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid … oil production. The organism uses specific chemical tags on DNA  to control which genes are active. Researchers …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the University of Georgia, Greg Bonito of Michigan State University, Jonathan Eisen of the University of California, …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is …

… his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, … et al. "Shoring up the base: the development and regulation of cortical sclerenchyma in grass nodal roots." Plant …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the … scientists usually employ two different methods; shotgun metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, … in microbiome studies, these scientists (now at Stanford University) collaborated with the JGI. Working together, …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Sciences and Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … nutrients in these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins … and his graduate student Kaela Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial …

… Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … system. He previously led the NGS Software team and metagenomic data platform at Zymergen, a synthetic biology … PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from Yale University. …