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For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … Officer). “You define the word ‘collegial’” “Every user facility at this Laboratory needs to have a great …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … in the Hungate1000 collection harbor enzymes that could be useful for transcriptomic engineering. As one example, …

Massie S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. … in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s … JGI’s strategic vision, the Institute’s staff and user community. … LBNL Biosciences Area Organizational …

… working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the pipelines for directed finishing and co-led … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

Flavia Winck Vischi, Jennifer Wisecaver, Yaqi You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel …

… joined the Lab in 2007 as the Sr. Human Resources Division Partner for the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and in … (JGI). Tina serves in an HR advisory role to Division/Area management and supervisors to recommend solutions … Sonoma State University. Early on Tina knew the importance of understanding human and group behaviors as her role in HR …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary …