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… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders …

… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and … or another, they’ve all mentioned how invaluable their time at the JGI was and how great it was to have an experienced career …

… Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … Lab), Woyke currently serves as the interim deputy for JGI User Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett … his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student … or national user facilities. Baker had worked with the JGI through a Community Science Program (CSP) proposal, and …

… s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have … bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome … and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled … large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never … available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about …

… specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in  Nucleic Acids Research . The …

… Danielle operates the single-cell genomics pipeline for JGI collaborators. This work combines custom flow cytometric analysis, …

… food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come … and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial … producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural …

… Jasmyn provides bioinformatics tools and analysis support for user science, with a focus on metagenomes. Passionate about automation and collaboration, she works to develop … reliability, thereby accelerating critical insights for the JGI User community. …

… for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) led a team that  … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … to produce desirable traits.  Partly enabled by the JGI  Community Science Program New Investigator program , …