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Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this annual gathering of leaders from diverse … are addressing the world’s most pressing energy and environmental challenges.  The invited talks emphasize how the …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They were selected through …

DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical … Mike Wilkins and his graduate student Kaela Amundson at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers …

Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and … sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific guidelines and best …

To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely …

… array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers … studied microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of …

The human-centered, agile collaboration between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data … portal Phytozome . Although the Data Portal is currently only accessible via Phytozome, the improvements it …

In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order …