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… in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… 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. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence …

… With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic … archaea and bacteria hosts. The Impact Within the domains of archaea and bacteria, millions of  microbes govern …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for … the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the virus and plasmid workflows for the National …

… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. … The rhizosphere is the area surrounding the roots of a plant in the soil. And I’m specifically working with a …

… 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 Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program …

… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Methodologies workshops. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prizewinning team at the Supercomputing …

… 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 …