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… develop presentation skills as well as build their network in the field of genomics and scientific research. The topics … students worked on ranged far and wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize …

… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, … Rambo’s work was overseen by Susannah Tringe, head of the Microbial Systems group. He also worked with Simon Roux and David …

Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants … of Cell Identity as an R package … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging … community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released its newest 5-Year … the bioeconomy. Functional diversity theme. Reading the genomes of individual organisms or environmental DNA, and …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team …

… green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of … summer were: Rida Ali, who worked with T.B.K. Reddy on the Genomes OnLine Database; Sarah Fruchart , who worked with …

… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. … a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …