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My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

In this episode, hear from Kasey and Patrick about how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's …

Committee (UEC) – 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 UEC. For microbial ecologist …

… array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers … studied microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been … (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project 4031). The work conducted by the US Department of …

… from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: … smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of … Michael Jewett of Northwestern University describe a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but …

… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … keeps its DNA more organized. “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are … at the JGI, Gros allowed him to continue research on the project. At the JGI, Volland began studying Ca. T. magnifica …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, … at a high level as JGI transitioned from the Human Genome Project to gaining momentum as a national user facility. He … Your ethics always point due north.” Joe Harkins served as project lead on the new building that would eventually rise …

… of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, … the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was also provided by the …

User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa Pawlowska of Cornell University, and Jana U’Ren (pronounced “you-wren”) of the University of Arizona! They join nine other JGI users already serving on the …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … . “There was a lot of freedom to explore,” he recalled. His project involved developing an algorithm and although the … information. According to Lawrence, this summer project aligned with his computational background and …

Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that …