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For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … delivering the (baked) goods – a retirement cake adorned by a JGI helix motif. Ray’s wife Deb, delivered a mask for …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working … research projects, hone science presentation skills, and participate in professional development enrichment … Line Between Plasmids and Phages … Polymorphisms Created by Transposable Elements … Evolution of the Mitochondria …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, … technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …

… in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and biological data management. She was one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol … in an Academic Setting, SSDBM 14, July 2014 … Selected Publications …

… efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … samples in support of user science.  Capabilities offered by the platform are a result of Dr. Louie’s establishment of … Sci Rep. 2013;3: 1656. … Education … Selected Publications …

… was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their growth program, and on how plants … (scRNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics). … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic … of Cell Identity as an R package … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics … and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, bioinformaticians, computer … the Wang group has developed customized data analyses and software to enable “grand-scale” scientific projects. These … metagenome binning software … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

… 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … Futures … Metagenome Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission … et al. Intersubunit Coupling Enables Fast CO2-Fixation by Reductive Carboxylases., ACS Central Science , 2022 … … DNA Synthesis Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

… to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the … is depth stratified, rainfall dependent, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms. Nature Microbiology … … Metabolomics Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

… human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed … management for the reference eukaryotic genomes produced by the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the collaborative … Award … Plant Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome … National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at … Award for Research Excellence … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …