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… and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to … of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group …

… all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these talks below, starting with Ari Patrinos. The Genomics Arms Race Ari Patrinos , Former Director of DOE’s … to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources to sequence it,” Patrinos said. After many …

… training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal … protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes … Algal Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and …

… between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data Portal , a pilot download … processes from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal … is a critical resource — it provides access to all of JGI’s genomic databases and tools,” noted  Kjiersten Fagnan , …

… the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass spectrometry-based techniques, the … and custom software for integrating metabolomics with genomic data (MAGI) for functional annotation and …

Management Group, attended a conference in Florida to discuss a JGI pilot project involving soil sampling in the … the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan … decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched region of the …

… a JGI Engagement: Accessing Resources at Multiple DOE User Facilities with a Single Proposal webinar, inviting researchers to apply for access to multiple genomics and molecular characterization capabilities in just … Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS proposals have helped advance …

… leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental … Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and … he was the interim Division Director within this same organization during the formation of the Division in …

… a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and … were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193  . …

… snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in … Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little …

… who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! … reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome , using samples from common gardens growing across the … involved researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, HudsonAlpha, and the JGI. Building off this work, …

… expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could … they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those considered large and giant. … co-cultivated with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and …