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JGI@25: Building a Better Bean
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … as a biofuel. To this end, a team of researchers led by Jeremy Schmutz of the JGI and the HudsonAlpha Institute …
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Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names ‘Nitrosococcus halophilus’ and ‘Nitrosomonas mobilis’
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Arboriscoccus pini gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the class Alphaproteobacteria, emended description of Geminicoccus roseus, and proposal of Geminicoccaceae fam. nov.
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Cold adaptive traits revealed by comparative genomic analysis of the eurypsychrophile Rhodococcus sp. JG3 isolated from high elevation McMurdo Dry Valley permafrost, Antarctica
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High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Ensifer sp. PC2, isolated from a nitrogen-fixing root nodule of the legume tree (Khejri) native to the Thar Desert of India
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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads …
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JGI@25: Solving the Mystery of the Missing Oil
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help …
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JGI Interns at UC Merced Earn CAMP Merit Awards
As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from … at UC Merced. CAMP is a statewide initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and supports …
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JGI@25 RECAP: 2022 Annual Meeting features historical perspectives on JGI’s 25 years
As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 … Kuhn in his 25th Anniversary presentation. “Those driven by new tools and those driven by new concepts.” Patrinos …
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The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea
Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an … Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea … Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …
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JGI Early Career Researchers Featured in mSystems Special Issue
… issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five … before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, … global ecological and environmental processes, especially by modifying host cell metabolism and altering cell fitness. …
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David Goodstein
With a background in experimental and computational surface physics, Dr. Goodstein held positions at … he began developing larger comparative genomic systems as the JGI’s eukaryote research efforts expanded to include … et al., 2020.  Gradual polyploid genome evolution revealed by pan-genomic analysis of Brachypodium hybridum and its …
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