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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … feedback on pangenome tool development. Maurice is a fungal evolutionary ecologist with interests in understanding which …
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… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … Crete, Greece … Pavlopoulos GA et al. (2023) Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics. Nature . … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar … Thomson Reuters …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … to experimental characterization and validation of the functional potential of these new lineages. …
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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. As both … ALISON: Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. Two special days … short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at …
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… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. … to gain hands-on experience in molecular biology and plant functional genomics, because this work is essential for …
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… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” … Wilbanks has served on review panels for the JGI’s Functional Genomics CSP and the JGI-EMSL FICUS programs and …
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Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …
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… symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with …
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For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …
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Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …
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DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of … I’ll take that knowledge back with me.” Now a second-year evolutionary biology student in David Ardell’s lab, he also …
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Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of antibiotics called zealexins. Even though scientists have … Science Program . And the work is part of a larger CSP Functional Genomics proposal to understand terpene …
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