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… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new … striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability … pots. These pots are right around the corner from the patio where food trucks arrive each day. “Our goal is to …

… Phytozome is the Plant Comparative Genomics portal of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and facilitates accurate and insightful …

… 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 …

… Setsuko Wakao, Meng Wang, and Allison Werner.   A total of 20 proposals were selected by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Molecular Foundry (TMF) for … involving critical minerals and materials. The Joint Genome Institute and Molecular Foundry are DOE Office of …

… a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE … plans. “The SCGSR gave me some great insight into my career path,” he said. “I much preferred the National Lab to …

… 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. …

… 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, …

… researchers have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move …

… 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 …

… Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … lines for efficiency.  In 2021, her team saw that four strains of anaerobic fungi also, unexpectedly, secrete … and porting parts from nature — enzymes, transporters, pathways — into microbes that we do know, to advance our …

… 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 …