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… from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in … after countless generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained by a workforce … than 100 at its peak, all the machines were switched off. Over the next two weeks, they were crated, shipped to, and …

Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of 50 letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential … vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … and the University of Wisconsin-Madison collected 40 samples from five oceanic regions to better understand how …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial … the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the sample’s billions of …

… quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by …

The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and … to function’ umbrella, this symposium will further focus on computational approaches to characterize novel …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … cells from a single low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including …

… the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional … Biology JGI Co-chair, People Stewardship committee (2020-2022) UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Postdoctoral Award …

Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an … off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and … Neocallimastix californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the … Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to … together a “Viral EcoGenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated … Stedman, Portland State University Luke Hillary, UC Davis Samuel Díaz-Muñoz, UC Davis Adrienne Correa, UC Berkeley …