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April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE … user service and workforce development. As of February 2025, we have already completed 37% of the two-year milestones, and 11% of the five-year milestones. … Highlights arising from …

… for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular movement, … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific … small pools, followed by whole genome amplification and shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on …

… and assumed the Deputy Director of User Program position in 2021. In addition to her JGI appointment, she also holds an … Visiting Committee), NASA Exobiology.  … Volland et al. 2022. A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA contained in … Nature Biotechnology 35, 725-731. Mukherjee et al. 2017. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates …

His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new … and virus-host interactions in microbial systems. Through a 2021 DOE Early Career Research Program, Dr. Roux established … reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell 185, 4023–4037. Coclet et al., 2023. Virus diversity and activity is …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from … DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the students participated in …

… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the … of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant bacterial group in the ocean. … for stable isotope probing metagenomics. mSystems 8:e01280-22. Volland et al. 2022.   A centimeter-long bacterium with …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and … The work is supported by NIH Common Fund grant 1U01DE034196-01. The JGI team, including Kyrpides, Camargo, and … metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for identifying mobile genetic …

… is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … sgRNA sequences were reliable. In an elegant, quantitative screen, the team designed a pool of sgRNA sequences: six for … was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 (IW, HA, and MB) and NSF  1706545 (IW). HA and JW were …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a … Niyogi KK, Schmutz J, Theg SM, Blaby-Haas CE, Merchant SS. (2021) Widespread polycistronic gene expression in green … umbilicalis (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta). PNAS  17: 201703088. Blaby-Haas CE, Padilla-Benavides T, Stübe R, Argüello …

… members to the JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska … scientific research.” In particular, she added, “I am interested in interacting with the user community and … and can serve no more than two consecutive terms. In late 2021, the JGI launched a solicitation for nominations for …