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Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of …

Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to …

DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate … technologies, but there was no mechanism for it,” he recalls. He arranged a meeting with the SNS dean, Juan Meza , …

… to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national efforts to promote and stimulate a bioeconomy, where …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, … as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan to begin to link the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … race was being waged. In this JGI@25 video, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … the people and resources from these three national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next …

… have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the University of Oslo, Aaron … Bioenergy Research Center. Her research focus is genetically engineering the plant cell wall to address dairy …

Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this … developments – that the JGI offers through proposal calls on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis to the worldwide …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. … Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass …

We know all kinds of things about plastic – except, how to break it down for recycling. But some hungry insects can digest plastic. …

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 … statewide. In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key … take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a …