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For example, they showed that the composition of the community was similar across sequencing approaches, that … cells harbored mobile genetic elements that were missed within paired metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs), and that … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his … JGI researcher, Zhong Wang, have adjunct faculty positions with the SNS, and Wang’s group was hosting another QSB … JGI Director Eddy Rubin. “QSB faculty are active DOE JGI Community Science Program collaborators, and UC Merced has …
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Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after the JGI was established to … viridis ). The team of researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center), HudsonAlpha and the JGI …
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Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, … the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s Data Science and Informatics department head. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan …
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… to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected … for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the … year in Berkeley, Calif. Convening the “viral ecogenomics” community, the VEGA symposium provides networking …
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… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of … prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP (pronounced “eye-pop”, freely …
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… microbial genomes becoming available to the global research community. Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group. “Turns out …
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… genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can … of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with younger, thinner ice means more fresh water — and less … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program and current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution … and it feels so rewarding,” Wint said. For Axel Visel, JGI Science Deputy and a co-founder of the internship program, …
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