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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … help solve energy and environmental challenges.   The Human Genome Project began in 1990 when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) partnered with …

… order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility … the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The Program aims to better understand the … The work is supported by NIH Common Fund grant 1U01DE034196-01. The JGI team, including Kyrpides, Camargo, and Roux, …

Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of … catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology 39, 499-509. Schulz et al. (2020) Giant virus diversity and … mSystems. 5 (3) Schulz et al. (2018) Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Communications. 9 (1), 1-9 Roux …

… involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the North … break down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. Applying genome sequencing and analysis, the researchers identified … the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. For example, the team has since identified  …

Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of …

… help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it … crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model …

… and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along … from different ecosystems all over the world, including 3,908 isolate reference DNA viruses and 264,413 …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha … Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, … plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off with 12 plants, which are JGI Flagship Plants, mostly related to …

… are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of … from their own genomes. One of these systems, the CRISPR-Cas9 system, is a powerful tool in gene editing, but many other … Frontiers Group, the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National …

… (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities … context for thousands of newly sampled microbial genomes from North American watersheds (Invited)” 4pm CST … controls of nitrous oxide pulses in rewetted forest soils: An integrated -omic and isotopic approach” 12:39pm …