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… bioeconomy, including, potentially, methane as an energy source.  Until recently, our understanding of these … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … scientists have shown at least two microorganisms from different phyla are capable of methanogenesis. Using …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing …

… Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … National Laboratory’s National Synchrotron Light Source II, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s … or DRI for short.  A kaleidoscope of structure-function data To study DRI experimentally, Blaby-Haas, Grosjean and …

… genomics. Click on the images below to learn about the science depicted. The two-story JGI mural was commissioned …

… revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental … large-scale “citizen science” project to generate real-time data for modeling and predicting the spread of a plant …

… quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over … makeup of new giant viruses. This review highlights four of these approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses in sequence data is read-mapping: using giant virus reference genomes to …

… lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in … other Antarctic lakes and the nearby Southern Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when sunlight becomes scant, Ace … dominates these polar environments greatly contributes to our larger understanding of carbon and other nutrient cycles …

… Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this role he supervises the Genome … provide analysis support and R&D for production and user science. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cambridge …