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… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. …

… from their summer experiences at the JGI Berkeley Lab offers a variety of programs to help inspire and train the next generation of … CalTeach initiative. During their time at the Joint Genome Institute, they interacted with interns from other …

… to advance biotechnology. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the Biological and Environmental Research program, the Joint Genome Institute provides advanced genomic capabilities, …

… ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … sequencing from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … changing salinity of the environment. ( The annotated algal genome is available on the JGI’s PhycoCosm data portal.) …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … in Nature , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied …

… UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with … californicus (and cone snails in general) outside of mostly anecdotal information,” Ul-Hasan noted. “I spent a …

… Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years … lines for efficiency.  In 2021, her team saw that four strains of anaerobic fungi also, unexpectedly, secrete …

… On February 8, 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the Environmental Molecular Sciences … FY2024 EMSL-JGI FICUS collaborative proposal call . Letters of Intent for the joint call are due March 7, 2024. The FICUS call allows researchers to combine the power of genomics and molecular characterization from the JGI and …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … RNA sequencing and alignment to the reference fungal  genome . The study’s pivotal NMR (nuclear magnetic …

… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake east of California’s … own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since been … In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and …