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… a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting researchers to … Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS proposals have helped advance …

… help map out microbial diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, … Pseudomonas putida to break down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and unknown. The challenge remains to learn more about what microbes are present in any given … spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay. The work was  reported in  The ISME Journal . While the screen caught …

Advisory Committee (SAC) is a board convened by the JGI Director to provide a scientific and technical overview of the JGI. The SAC is chartered to render advice, … technical input on large-scale production sequencing, new sequencing technologies, and related informatics; overview …

JGI Engagement: Accessing Functional Genomics Capabilities Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the … exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that …

As an Integrative Genome Science User Facility, the JGI plays a leadership role in enabling the frontiers of … Metabolites, and DNA Synthesis Science Programs and draw from the infrastructure of Genomic Technologies and Data …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber … they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address … scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms … circular capture areas roughly 55-microns in diameter — about the width of a human hair. At such resolution, this …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii … UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of … Lab’s 2015 Women @ the Lab honorees. Woyke’s research focuses on developing and harnessing single-cell methods to … of features such as a new genetic code. More recently reported in Nature , she led a team that reconstructed more …

The JGI leverages its existing partnerships and develops others … as impact multipliers . The JGI has a long-term partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology for our … expand data functionality. Close partnerships with other user facilities enable the ability to leverage their …