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…  Learn about meetings the JGI is hosting:   … New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Symposium … The JGI is represented at conferences year round; find out where our researchers will be presenting next. Go here to learn about …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for … human chromosomes. After successful completion of the Human Genome Project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team has continued to … AB in Physics, Princeton University, NJ MS in Theoretical … Cornell University, NY Postdoctoral scientist, IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY …

… The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce … yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio … , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)  proposed sequencing a …

… To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by … included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots … on the fungal Tree of Life through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Hacquard’s group had assembled a mycobiome culture …

… The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … mycobiont. However, despite a century-and-a-half of lichen research, many of the symbiosis’ details remain unclear. For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better …

… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome … vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research scientist on … BS in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, Nottingham University, UK PhD in Genomics, University of …

… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at … of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …