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UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel … assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program that offered a handful …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature …

Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His … gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he spent time as a faculty member at the University of …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the … His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new … to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the organization …

Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support Analysis … and cancer genetics. Dr. Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental … in human and other vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for … the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass spectrometry-based …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership between JGI and the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and …

… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ … to culture these microbes in the lab. After joining the JGI, he formed the Microscale Applications group to operate …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after the JGI was established to work on the …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative … to the resources and disciplines advanced by the JGI, we seek to inspire more students to enter the science, …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through …