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… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual … by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders … one JGI mentor. Together, they work through a specific project that aligns with each intern’s interests or …
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… The JGI uniquely offers the first quantitative Stable Isotope … The JGI provides users access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA … additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate …
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… nutrients in these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users and microbiome researchers Mike Wilkins … deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re … have tapped into the resources and capabilities of both the JGI and the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory …
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… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been …
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… the specialized software and supercomputers behind this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a …
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… and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled … large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific … PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from Yale University. …
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… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership between JGI and the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and … her PhD in Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard …
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… internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 … partnership had become a “model” of sorts at the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to …
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… Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize … Lab), Woyke currently serves as the interim deputy for JGI User Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the …
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… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the … Ocean Sciences and as Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Merced. Woyke received a 2014 …
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… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) initiative. “This project has helped to define the current shape of the … Natalia Ivanova, senior author of the study and head of the JGI’s Microbiome Annotation Group. Many of these bacterial …
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