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… This year’s list features 6,900 researchers working in 21 fields.  Congratulations to the  2022 Highly Cited … Rokhsar (Cross-field)  Simon Roux (Cross-field)  Jeremy Schmutz (Cross-field)  Susannah Tringe (Microbiology)  Tanja … recently created a computational pipeline that scans specifically for RNA virus sequences, initially using it to comb …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from … year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted … Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as they …

… ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, …

… times more quickly than even carbon dioxide. The EPA attributes one-fifth of all methane emissions to livestock and … methane emissions actually come from livestock — specifically, from the methane-making microbes within their rumen. … as well as efficient engineering of biofuels. Since 2010, the JGI has partnered with researchers around the world …

… Interns contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab protocols at … at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This year, the 12th JGI-UC Merced cohort consisted of three undergraduate …

… JGI Director, Nigel Mouncey. Jonathan credits his intrinsically motivated students with fully defining the project, … Taking into consideration some complicated environmental challenges for collecting these soil samples, the students … a deeper understanding of both the research process and metagenomics while legitimately contributing to the body of …

… Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data … Professor Matthias Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the …

… Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: the 50th … a special kind of plant metabolism. This metabolism, called crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM — that’s C-A-M, … plant system, they need to open these pores in their leaves called stomata. And through those pores, water is moved into …

… Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new group at the Lab, the Sustainable … finding solutions to clean energy and environmental challenges. And many JGIers work to connect those big goals … cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half, relative to its 2015 baseline emissions.  Reaching that goal will mean …