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… Mr. Everson rejoined the JGI in 2020  and leads all aspects of JGI Operations which include the Safety, Finance, Human … and logistics activities.  He returned to the Joint Genome Institute after serving as the Chief Operating Officer of the DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute and the …

… 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. …

… 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 … In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study …

… 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, …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at …

… 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 …