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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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; … interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular techniques. The FICUS program is designed to … to more easily integrate the expertise and capabilities of multiple Department of Energy Office of Science National …

… Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … context for thousands of newly sampled microbial genomes from North American watersheds (Invited)” 4pm CST … 1000 Soils Project: core collection strategy and data types available” December 17  6:40am Convention Center Rm …

… 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 …