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Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and … of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and …

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 …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes … and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to …

Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements …

This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 … gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in not only their work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and …

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

High School. Though a partnership with Biotech Partners, a nonprofit that provides underserved youth in the Bay Area with … higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School this …

The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the … have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear …

They survive everywhere from Antarctica to Joshua Tree National Park, despite extremely harsh conditions. And their … organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in … internship program between the JGI and UC Merced faculty focused on bioinformatics was coalescing. Lawrence applied for …