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… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … of these microbial communities could lead to the development of new biotechnologies around clean energy,  … seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with very hot rocks below, becoming an extremely hot, …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing … Research Division. As a postdoc, her research focused on stable and accurate computational methods for … Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a focus on adapting JGI workloads to run on supercomputing …

… ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches using statistical analyses to continuously refine and … Such proteins have been adapted for therapeutic application development by Mammoth Biosciences, one of several companies … and Management.” So begins a passage from Doudna’s book about her meeting with Banfield. (Banfield’s recounting of …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … cycling takes place only on a microbial level. Previous studies focused on the Southern Ocean have found that in …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida … peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches … to apply the latest molecular techniques to learn more about the microbial communities in the Arthur R. Marshall …

… method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes … Roux are part of the first cohort to receive Early Career Development awards as part of the Laboratory-Directed …

… Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most … that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean … and by a grant to J. Eisen, J.J.S. and J.L.O. from the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute Community …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the appropriate contextual information, or metadata, stored with them. GOLD provides manually curated metadata resources … GOLD users have spurred its growth and the continuing development of new components and capabilities. The most …

… part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences, among the interns were two … and math (STEM) fields. This summer, they worked with Zhong Wang’s and Tanja Woyke’s groups, respectively. Each of the interns spoke briefly about their time at the JGI at …

… novel research projects from PIs who have not led any previously accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part … Science Program , allows us to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers whose work aligns with … November 2025 review. You can also find more information about the JGI’s  various proposal calls here. …

… Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and knowledge-based user facility at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and … Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics …

… to this, he served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the … switchgrass transformation pipeline and, in collaboration with industrial partners, generated hundreds of transgenic …