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My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

… work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, … The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop … 80% of sugar production worldwide, but has one of the most complex genetic blueprints. Assembling a genome has been …

Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed … over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI … of root exudates, which overall influences the health and composition of the root microbiome and rhizosphere. Ti’Yanna …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who … the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) administered by the DOE JGI. T.B.K Reddy, Kaushal‘s mentor, described his student’s … a video about the Biotech Partner summer interns at the JGI. What did you do for your summer vacation? …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral … and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and is …

Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research …

New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and …

This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 … gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in not only their work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at … prey. The Impact This research provides a much more comprehensive understanding of how a fundamental mechanism …