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In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area counties. The JGI, located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … sequence of a mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from looking at single organisms to applying a broader ecosystem …

… and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently … genome duplication occurs within a single species. By contrast, “allopolyploids” arise when different ancestral …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … et al. Intersubunit Coupling Enables Fast CO2-Fixation by Reductive Carboxylases., ACS Central Science , 2022 …

DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of … CA … Lankiewicz et al (2023) Lignin deconstruction by anaerobic fungi.  Nature Microbiol. 8(4):596-610. Nelson …

Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel received his … Institute in Hanover, Germany, where he developed novel tools for large-scale in situ gene expression analysis in … LA, Visel A (2013). Fine tuning of craniofacial morphology by distant-acting enhancers. Science 342, 1241006. Visel A …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … Highly Cited Researcher, Biology and Biochemistry, top 1%, by Clarivate Analytics 2020 van Niel International Prize for …