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The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been …

California honing their scientific skills and collaborating with their mentors and fellow interns. Inspired by the … success of the UC Merced internship program, they left the JGI more confident and ready to tackle real-world scientific … coding. Receive mentorship, network and gain connections with lab staff. Increase their technical skills and …

… computational analysis for new technology development and JGI user science projects. We perform analysis for diverse experiment types, with main focus areas being genome variation, …

… was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint appointment with … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly … missing from the analysis (due to extinction or you didn’t sample it). But once we deciphered the subgenomes we came up …

… and biogeochemical cycles. He provides his expertise to the JGI user community and supports various user projects in the … on agnostic pathogen detection and surveillance in complex samples. … B.Sc. Biochemistry, University of Applied … A. et al. 2023. Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad. Nature Biotechnology . Schulz et al. 2022. …

Creek Featuring a casual, candid, C-level panel discussion with local industry leaders: Arvind Gupta , Managing … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and … some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science …

… of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with the humans and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and cultivated microbes, researchers have been able …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the … some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … producers fueling our planet’s biogeochemical cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user … Over time, MGEs can help microbes gain a competitive edge within an ecosystem. They influence the composition of the …

… outcomes of these infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive the energy … part of efforts to characterize global microbial diversity with an aim to improve predictive ecosystems models, … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… in their hunt for anaerobic fungi. By growing extracts without oxygen in ruminant fluid — which smells terrible … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … into expected proteins. That work was done in collaboration with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), …