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… in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of … Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral … together a “Viral EcoGenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated viruses, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, …

… bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things …

… over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the … and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s research is focused on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity … Foskett Brown Chair, Computational Biology, UC Berkeley 2012 Cotton Biotechnology Award, National Cotton Council …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … Science Program (CSP) .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in … particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and … of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and …

… 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 … the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought …

… walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there are soil saprotrophs, which … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … in moving toward functional genomics studies to learn more about the inner workings of plant-host and …

… other than photosynthesis to gain and harness energy. As reported January 28, 2019 in Nature Communications , two … popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus …

… 2024 was a year of first, including the flagship internship … success of the UC Merced internship program, they left the JGI more confident and ready to tackle real-world scientific … allowed them to:  Learn new skills. Experience industry-level work and coding. Receive mentorship, network and …

The User Support Analysis group provides computational analysis for new technology development and JGI user science projects. We perform analysis for diverse …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … Lab’s 2015 Women @ the Lab honorees. Woyke’s research focuses on developing and harnessing single-cell methods to … of features such as a new genetic code. More recently reported in Nature , she led a team that reconstructed more …