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This group is responsible for institutional strategic planning, talent management, and convening of advisory committees to guide the direction of programs and initiatives to enhance the JGI’s preeminence as a national resource. Members report to …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … viridis ). The team of researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center), HudsonAlpha and the JGI …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, developed an algorithm that a …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples …

As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … to maximize returns on these advances. Over the last two decades, Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) has opened vast …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new … genomics analysis to peta-bases, and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … Functional Annotation Lead Steven Ahrendt , Biosystems Data Science … Brian Hedlund , University of Nevada, Las Vegas …