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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship … Cross Species Integration of Single Cell Transcriptomes …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly actinomycetes. … technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, he directs a multidisciplinary team responsible for …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics production for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science … Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at …

… interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their growth program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light …

… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and … at the JGI, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large … programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the Joint BioEnergy … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the …

… Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  … training in Biochemistry, University of Washington …

… working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and improvement …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a … University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in … PhD, Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida NIH Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA …