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… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to … sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in her …

… Kathleen Scott, Tiffany Taylor, Setsuko Wakao and Benjamin Woolston. ] Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from scientists who translate genomic information into biological function. Through our  CSP …

… Dr. Visel joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2010. As the Deputy … developed and applied novel computational and experimental sequence-based methods for elucidating the gene regulatory … of genetic switches implicated in developmental and disease processes in the human genome. In addition to his …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … microbes are no exception. Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science. It … of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen microbes involved in the digestion …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day … plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was … Data Collaborative.  This award recognizes distinguished research achievements that support open data practices, …

… Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … and Mar Schmidt; [bottom] Cody Spiegel, James Tan, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, Andressa M. Venturini, Valentin Waschulin, … Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and … forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software was created by researchers under the …

… – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … of ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches using statistical analyses to continuously refine … CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna noted in her …

… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and Science Programs …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science … entailing the function of more than a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes … sesquiterpenoids, National Science Foundation Plant-Biotic Interactions Program (grant no. 1758976 to E.S. and P.Z.) …