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On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National … (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop … biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector …
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… molecular capabilities and state-of-the-art next-generation sequencing to enable biological discovery by the JGI and … approaches, testing various platforms to see what works best for applications. The team works hand in hand with the Project Management Office to …
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… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … to understand what makes polar photosynthesizers tick. He’s working with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating … known, throws open the doors to characterizing how DGRs work at the molecular level. Scientists might then harness …
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… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team announced in Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for c … more efficiently than one strain could on its own. In work published in Synthetic Biology , the team used CRAGE …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … the JGI Flagship Plants . Since 2007, the JGI has been working on identifying switchgrass genes related to biomass … crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model …
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