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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the University of Oslo, Aaron … genetics expertise and experience as a primarily fungal genomics user, he aims to help align JGI policies with …

… new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new genomics technologies, scaling up genomics analysis to … and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer … metagenome binning software … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … huge amounts of data. I was excited to work on fungal genomics and the fact that I got to do a project involving …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE … the SCGSR research experience was “an ideal opportunity for me to get real-world experience.” As he finalizes his …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … in the journal Science. It detailed how they’d used metagenomics — a then-novel approach which allows scientists to …

… the June 2022 CROPS Conference at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Phytozome is the Plant Comparative Genomics portal of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells …

June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health … and seminars as well as practical hands-on sessions in bioinformatics and biostatistics. …

Bob uses single-cell genomics and metagenomics to explore how microbes influence people and the … studying the diversity, physiology and community ecology of microbes sampled from the natural environment. …

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… traditional cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within … microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary history of life. …

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 JGI’s capabilities in the areas of metagenomics, single-particle genomics, and metabolic …