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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … Lab) were on the scene collecting samples. Terry Hazen, a former Berkeley Lab environmental biologist and current … Jansson’s team. Jansson is currently Chief Scientist for Biology in the Biological Sciences Division and a Laboratory …

… Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in … environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Yeast strains engineered for the biochemical conversion of glucose to value-added … Alper said. “We’re exploring not just what can be enabled by this technology, but also what we can understand …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … and coordinates the development of the virus and plasmid workflows for the National Microbiome Data Collaborative.  … that support open data practices, development of standards and processes for data quality and sharing, and …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … — scientists can better fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to … The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … sex chromosomes. The results were published in  Genome Biology . The team found that the shrub willow’s W … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding … cycles, and possibly cold-temperature enzymes for biotechnological use. Summary Conditions such as extreme … could have biotechnological applications. The work has been enabled through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) . …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing … to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently … The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …