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… the User Support Analysis group. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cambridge … editing and cancer genetics. Dr. Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and … genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research scientist on projects to …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of … the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A … genomic tools, allows Miscanthus to both inform and benefit from breeding programs of related candidate bioenergy … was recently published in Nature Communications by an international, multi-institutional team. The work was a …

Genomics Capabilities Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the Community Science Program’s  … doing when starting the lab. It has been, especially from an early career perspective, been absolutely … proposals for acceptance, it will be sent off for internal review to consider the biosecurity, biosafety, and …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, … of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint … – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific … team contributed additional sample sets, such as sorghum internode time course data from 4 different genotypes by Dr. …

… focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. We develop … Clum, A. et al. (2021)  DOE JGI metagenome workflow …

… and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the … virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific guidelines and … have now developed CheckV (pronounced “Check-Vee”) to help researchers assess and improve the quality of …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … Department of Energy’s goal of producing sustainable fuels from alternative sources. Moreover, the team says the … spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of researchers …

… root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  recently published in the … of the study’s co-authors is  Benjamin Cole , a research scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “This represents the largest …

JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging partnerships to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for … a half, Visel drove the effort, comprised of holding JGI-internal leadership and planning workshops, as well as collecting extensive input from all JGI staff, Biosciences and Berkeley Lab leadership, …