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… featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of … proposal. From the vantage point of JGI’s 25 years fueling discovery, Anderson looked toward the JGI’s next decades of …

… days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI … bacterial group in the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he … amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. After joining the JGI, …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest … growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … their genomes were “remarkably” stable. “We thought we were sequencing the same genome multiple times,” Schmutz …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … Grimwood is also co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center. Grimwood heads the Library Construction …

Michelle O’Malley and Tom Lankiewicz of UC Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery that turns scientific presumption on its head and …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … patches have become kindling for the inevitable next firestorm. The majestic sentinel oaks of the Golden State have …

… month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and … of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, where she leads a research group investigating the physiology and … in metagenomics and novel applications for long-read DNA sequencing. As a UEC member, Wilbanks will advocate for …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome required a custom …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and … a marine microbiologist at the University of East Anglia, leads this effort to understand what makes polar … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …