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As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a look back … sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks shed light on how the JGI …

… from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital …

… really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard … [DNA Synthesis Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave back in 2016.” Alper’s first approved JGI proposal came through the … the request size, being permitted to request up to 1.5 megabases (MB) of a synthesis, compared to 0.5 MB for a …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the DOE. The work conducted by the DOE Joint …

… for a sustainable bioeconomy. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, we provide … in our new Strategic Plan , which was released in April 2024 — through serving an increased number of users with a … We generated 871 Terabases of sequence We synthesized 9.7 Megabases of DNA We processed 13,700 metabolomics samples …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference … and Environmental Research under Award Number DE-SC0018420. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated … efficacy of RIViT-seq, researchers recently characterized 12 sigma factors and were able to identify the associated …

Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for … User Facilities in One Proposal via FICUS December 13 8:12 am Convention Center eLightning Theater IV: Kuno Kasak, …

… survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … in overcoming this obstacle when it hit the scene in 2019. Now, that power is poised to grow exponentially by …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for identifying mobile genetic …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program awards … of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of their …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team … led to the work published in Scientific Reports . Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of …