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My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable …

… over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the … and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s research is focused on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity … developmental biology. In addition to this evolutionary focus, his work on plant genomics is targeted towards the …

… and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to … he can be found trying to convince others that RNA viruses are actually interesting and not just "spicy messenger …

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

New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle …

… in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 …

Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments …

… higher education and access to fulfilling science careers, JGI hosted five students from Antioch High School this …

… her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and … currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of … S et al. IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultured virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, …

And their survival secrets could one day help other organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and the JGI – to understand them better. …

… to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …