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… virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific guidelines and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced …

UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s … Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from … explained: “One of the hallmarks of JGI is our diverse workforce and our diverse collaborators around the world. That …

… (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that … how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these …

Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of biosynthetic gene …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the … link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the organization of community-building efforts in the field of viral ecogenomics. For this role, Dr. …

Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support Analysis … the lead of the User Support Analysis group. The group performs custom analysis and develops automated pipelines for analysis of resequencing, transcriptome, epigenome and …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific … leaders in the field of microbiology and are relied upon for authoritative advice and insight on critical issues in …

… approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … take advantage of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and … JM and Merchant SS. (2014) Evolution of a plant- specific copper chaperone family for chloroplast copper homeostasis. …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ … of Technology he developed a high throughput approach for isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying …

Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began … continued to contribute across JGI plant genomes. She has appeared on the annual Highly Cited Researchers list assembly …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through … technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. In doing so, it is our ambition to further develop a …