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For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC … Morgan Lavenstein Bendall and mentor Juan C. Villada, Ecology & Evolution of Self-Catalytic Introns across Earth’s … and Frederik Schulz, Structure Prediction to Annotate Novel Viruses: the Case of Polintoviruses Josue Duque and mentor …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline soda lake …

Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from … World Bio Markets Bio-based Business Person of the Year Publications Committee Chair (2016- ), Society for …

As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 … Lab. Like the mural, the JGI’s accomplishments over 25 years span a broad, colorful range. Behind every genomic … fold: How much JGI’s productivity has increased since 1997. What took the JGI one year to do in 1997, now takes …

Switchgrass is a native, shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. … switchgrass is among the JGI Flagship Plants . Since 2007, the JGI has been working on identifying switchgrass genes … of common switchgrass gardens to track crop productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are … Plasmid Resource (IMG/PR) , which currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and …

… change biodiversity, and how these changes affect the dynamics and functioning of ecosystems. She leads a recently … $50 million in annual research and don’t award at least 70 research doctorates a year. Coinciding with the election results, Roland …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, … plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT  genes. Within the AT genes identified …

… showed that the composition of the community was similar across sequencing approaches, that species specific sets of … in, on, and around the planet remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic … This work was also sponsored by NSF grants DEB-1441717, OCE-1335810, and OIA-1826734 to RS. …

… to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In 2019, the countdown has begun to the June … leadership role in a Microbiome Data Science effort (pages 37-39) and the launching of a Secondary Metabolites research … more responsive to cross-cutting opportunities, align goals across the Area and BER-supported research themes, as well …