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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on …

… Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

… Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict …

… National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations … available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 different types of NEON samples and specimens per …

… Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay … their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these challenges.  DOE’s …

… Berkeley is responsible for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work focuses on the development of new applications utilizing a variety of technologies to improve …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …

… JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through … institution, one of which may be a graduate student. Applications are solicited annually for the summer term (May …

… Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock … using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… Mr. Rath has been leading the Systems Infrastructure Team at the JGI since 2020. … Before joining the JGI, he has been working on the boundary of life science and computational science with notable stops … team is unbureaucratic and driven by code, without putting humans in the loop. He is a big proponent of empowering …