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Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected … (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of …

My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science … The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop … Assembling a genome has been compared to putting together a puzzle without necessarily knowing the final image. …

Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational … over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the … this evolutionary focus, his work on plant genomics is targeted towards the development of improved biofuel feedstocks …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who … the version 6 data updates and feature enhancements to the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) administered by the DOE JGI. T.B.K Reddy, Kaushal‘s mentor, described his student’s …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … employed multiple microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are … and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial …

Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on his summer at JGI through a program that provides graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories.   …

… at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and …

This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in not only their work, but the …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first … proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at …