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… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from … … LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Early Scientific Career Achievement, 2020 NIH Early Career Investigator … Program; Genome Canada Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition; NASA Exobiology; Graduate Women in …

… in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards the sequencing, annotation, … After successful completion of the human genome project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team has continued to …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … specific procedure.” The rapport they built during this project and others (including the dissertation that preceded … in genomes.” He’s working with Rokhsar on a newer genome project, and enjoys the fact that he can use what they’ve …

… soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … DOE Office of Science National User Facilities in a single project. … This work was supported through a USDA NIFA award …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the … shared their thoughts on the students’ efforts. Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial … questions, methodical problem-solving, and hard work have carried it through the difficult early stages, so I can …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … University in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial … its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what it means in a more global …

… about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Natural products, secondary metabolites, and specialized metabolites all refer to … the chemicals that make species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to medicine, the …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the … environments. He’s been involved in several plant genome projects through the Community Science Program. As a UEC … families to understand enzyme activity. As another early career researcher on the UEC, she is interested in creating …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and … JGI collaborator Jeffery Dangl at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, using CRAGE-Duet to engineer  …