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…   Register here  Registration fees:  Early Bird rates available now General & Berkeley … Lab Attendee – $300 Students & Postdocs – $250   Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the 5th Viral EcoGenomics and Applications (VEGA) symposium will take place November 18-19, 2026 on …

… debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in  Nature Reviews …

… In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene … The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are also seen in flowering plants, or …

… State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. … Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have … viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over the world, scientists have discovered giants among viruses. Now categorized in their own phylum,  … This work was conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven … structures within cells. This is the largest dataset of its kind ever assembled. The team identified 15 core … twice the size of the largest fungal mitochondrial genome reported before this study. A statistical comparison of …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission … more about their work here in a series of videos produced by JGI Communications & Outreach intern Ashleigh Papp. The …

… April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re … in California’s manmade water transport canals. Inspired by Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic “Up Goer Five” and his … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of … factors that control how genes are turned on is known as DNA affinity purification sequencing or DAP-seq. The … proposal through the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP) focuses on a fungal comparative ENCODE project known as …

… and researchers to harness the traits that let this biomass powerhouse thrive. Within its genome, Sorghum bicolor … holds keys to drought and flood resilience, biomass production for fuels, and growth in poor soils. In addition to … once, producing a pangenome resource for sorghum , recently reported in Nature . “We wanted to build a resource that …