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University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and …
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Institute in Hanover, Germany, where he developed novel tools for large-scale in situ gene expression analysis in multicellular organisms. During his postdoctoral training at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he … EM, Ovcharenko I, Pennacchio LA, Rubenstein JL (2013, * corresponding author). A high-resolution enhancer atlas of the …
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… involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome … novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large vertebrate genomes. For the past 13 years, Mr. … JGI Plant Flagship Genomes and DOE relevant cellulosic feedstocks. Schmutz provides scientific project management for …
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… technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a … (Berkeley Lab). Transcription factors control when and how genes are turned on or off, so transcriptional … including activators, repressors and sigma factors. However, currently the process for identifying the …
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… strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex … ZW rather than ZZ encodes for females. To better understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers … response regulator that was expanded in a palindrome and shown to be undergoing gene conversion in willow. This gene …
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Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have recently … that could help crop breeders and researchers predict how crops and model organisms may evolve. Determining the … genome duplication, which occurs in two basic ways. In “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single …
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Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to global oceans. Through the Community Science … in learning more about the fungal endophytes of soybean and how they deter two significant pathogens, the soybean cyst …
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… the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Prior to this role, she served as the primary storyteller and social media manager for the JGI. She produced both text-based and multimedia stories that were then shared along with other JGI-relevant …
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… with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as … JGI also hosted events to enable students to showcase their work and even a celebratory toast at the end …
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… best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and … in species with large and complex genomes,” said Lovell. “However, new sequencing technologies have allowed us to … trying to leverage these discoveries to better understand how plants tolerate stresses and challenges in the natural …
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… vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander … will serve the JGI and KBase for years to come.” A slideshow depicting 15-years of photo memories of Ray’s tenure, … tenure, Ray said that he was pleasantly surprised to see how well the management skills he had learned during his …
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Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing … were previously missed in knock-out screens. These results show that this singular library synthesized by JGI was …
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