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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility … body, providing input on JGI policies and practices that support its user community. The breadth of scientific … focuses on the evolution, ecology, genomics and function of microbes and microbiomes, especially those found in …

… have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and … from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program that offered a handful of graduate students summer research … Clarissa Nobile, investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades … insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” that stretches some 580,000 square miles across southern … Everglades in Palm Beach County, and particularly about the microbes that play roles in the methane cycle. Their data …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription factors that control how genes are turned on is known as DNA … high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to these …

… the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s … Their talks shed light on how the JGI was established, all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in … currently works to support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have relevance …

… 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. … ensuring genes vital for growth and survival across various environments are expressed when their functions are needed. …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The … easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; … Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were usually only around 30% …

… The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems … who made use of our data. We completed 39,870 projects in FY24 We generated 871 Terabases of sequence We … advanced genomic capabilities. This year we brought online the latest short-read technology, the Illumina NovaSeq X …

… those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in … Grimwood , and  Jeremy Schmutz were part of a consortium that  released a very high quality reference genome sequence …

… submission process. You can review successful letters of intent and submissions at the bottom of the page.  … Review the list of open calls ; click on the call link to see specific details including project types supported, sample/capacity limits, … The CSP and FICUS calls are open to both domestic and international applicants from any institution type and at …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for … uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a …