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…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected … (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of …

In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M … an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE … Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the …

Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools … gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he spent time as a faculty member at the University of …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the Erb lab through the CSP Functional Genomics call, the JGI synthesized library of genes that code for Enoyl-CoA …

… s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders …

Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to … they’ve all mentioned how invaluable their time at the JGI was and how great it was to have an experienced career …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … ( The annotated algal genome is available on the JGI’s PhycoCosm data portal.) This research not only sheds …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, … his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student … or national user facilities. Baker had worked with the JGI through a Community Science Program (CSP) proposal, and …