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… – $250 Students & Postdocs – $200 Regular Rates (begin September 19, 2026) General & Berkeley Lab Attendee – $300 Students & Postdocs – $250   Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the 5th Viral EcoGenomics and … VEGA 26 will take place at the UC Berkeley MLK Building, in the East Pauley Ballroom, November 18–19, 2026. The …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … the study’s international team, which included scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego … I. Greenblum, Abraham Morales-Cruz, Peng Wang, Yu Zhang, Lin Yang, Cindy Chen et al. "Recruitment, rewiring and deep …

… Danielle operates the single-cell genomics pipeline for JGI collaborators. This work combines custom flow cytometric analysis, cell sorting, genome amplification, PCR screening, and 16S sequencing. She …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … as well as the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … found that these enzymes have evolved distinctly from both core and specialized enzymes. Even during …

… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium hybridum . …

… 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. One project …

… the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to … through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… have known that many datasets miss a key part of microbial genomes: the mobile genetic elements, or MGEs, that can move between organisms. But now, deep sequencing and new analysis methods are bringing this mobilome into … (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire. …