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As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through … JGI, we seek to inspire more students to enter the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of …

Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user … to technical capabilities JGI offers, as well as proposal review procedures and the organization of the JGI Annual …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more … Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is … SAR324 exist in so many varied environments? Now, a recent study published in Microbiome has uncovered that SAR324 … sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of …

Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting fully-supported summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP is a summer professional … were: Simon Roux and Matthew Kellom for the JGI Metagenome Program Ellen Dow and Elisha Wood-Charlson for …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and senior author of the study. “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the …

Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary … metabolites are useful in a variety of fields including biotechnology, medicine and agriculture. This comprehensive … and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author in the Microbiome Data Science group …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” … Polyploid Genomes in a Pan-genomic Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science … Aberystwyth University (UK); HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; University of Massachusetts Amherst; and, Tomsk …