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Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is also co-director of the …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome …

… yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their … data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the … genetic diversity. They hold economic value as both biofuel feedstock and their role in carbon sequestration. …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was also supported …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … can be broken down for things like biomass and  biofuels . However, AMF and the microbial communities they …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … can more easily convert plants into carbon-neutral biofuels . What’s more, many natural products have potential to …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director …