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A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how …

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 …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at …

Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial …

Learn more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics … data and comparative analysis tools developed by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal … in the forest. White rot can break down the cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin in plant cell walls, while brown … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base … in protein structures and functions, but the DNA bases themselves can also be modified. The best-known example of a … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and others like …

Notes from the Summer 2018 Biotech Partners Interns from Antioch High School. Though a partnership with … underserved youth in the Bay Area with personal, academic and professional development experiences that increase … higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School this …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have taken a look at … and growth.  This study builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful …

In this short video, UC Merced undergraduate and graduate … Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new … and mentor Frederik Schulz Daravuth Cheam and mentors Clement Coclet and Simon Roux Tyrome Sweet and mentor Jonelle …

Dr. I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and biological … currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of …