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… briefly about their time at the JGI at http://bit.ly/JGI15summerinternsvids . Click here to check out photos of the interns. For this second year of the DOE JGI/University of California, Merced …

… scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American … microbial sciences field. Roux will be recognized at the 2025 ASM Microbe Meeting in Los Angeles, Calif.  Roux is also … (VEGA) Symposium , which will take place later this year in Berkeley, Calif. Convening the “viral ecogenomics” …

… Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research projects from PIs … a list of researchers whose proposals were accepted for 2025. Utilizing the JGI’s resources, these researchers will … alpine soils to tropical glaciers.  Proposals are accepted year-round for this ongoing call; the next deadline for …

… interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … – were selected to continue their research over the school year.   …

… Control of Drought Response in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of … impact the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale … each week over the full life cycle of the plant. The first year’s gene expression results were  published in the  …

… of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to teach a second year A-Level Advanced International Certificate of Education … answers being, “It would take a team of Ph.D.’s over a year to do a project at this capacity.” Jonathan’s thought … devices, then planned and collected from 4 sites with 5 replicates. They extracted the DNA from the soil with …

… Wilken, Jing Yuan, and Brittany N. Zepernick.    Each year, the JGI solicits novel research projects from PIs who … crop resilience and soil health. Proposals are accepted year-round for this ongoing call; the next deadline for …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … the number of known viral genes by a factor of 16. The same year, the JGI expanded its existing Integrated Microbial … inform on how this can be done” Roux said. And in just 6 years, IMG/VR has built a foundation for finding more of …

… to the global research community.  Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department … biofuels and bioproducts, and medicine. Wading through 30 years of sequencing data, the team composed of Wu, Seshadri, … data directly from environmental samples over the years have significantly expanded the known diversity of …

… technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible … by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — …

… Though such visits have been impossible for the past year and a half, “the logistics haven’t changed,” noted …