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You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed … specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been … So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … as well as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … copies of enzymes, similar to including half a dozen slightly different screwdrivers in a toolkit. This way, these …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights …

… [above] Emma Bell, Mallory Choudoir, Sneha Couvillion, Tobin Hammer, Christina Hazard, Rachel Mackelprang, Brook Moyers, Mei, Ran,; … is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why twice each year we look for novel …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements … genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

… our 2024 Community Science Program Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, … relevant to the DOE’s mission, and I look forward to seeing their outcomes.” The annual CSP call is focused on …

While summer interns at the JGI from multiple programs had their own … they constantly collaborated with each other on new ways of presenting and researching science. …