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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. …

… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to … Research Symposium , held February 6 at the University of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were among 5 UC … “It is a beautiful thing, that our young campus earned 25% of the research awards,” said Jesús Cisneros, director of …

… 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, …

… 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 … that work like assembly lines for efficiency.  In 2021, her team saw that four strains of anaerobic fungi also, unexpectedly, secrete …

… And also specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the … are a little bit stronger in computing, so I was kind of worried coming into the, the internship that maybe I … summer. But ultimately I think that my skills were very complimentary to the project and I learned a lot and gonna take …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … important for carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and climate change; and biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts. …

… 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 …