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Restoration of biofuel production levels and increased tolerance under ionic liquid stress is enabled by a mutation in the essential Escherichia coli gene cydC
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A Step Toward Controlling Soybean Rust
… reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the … to counter soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome …
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Single mutation at a highly conserved region of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase enables isobutyl acetate production directly from cellulose by Clostridium thermocellum at elevated temperatures
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Zhong Wang
… on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new genomics technologies, scaling up … genomics analysis to peta-bases, and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of computational biologists, … GPU, Cloud etc) and their applications in solving DOE’s most challenging problems. … PhD Cell Biology. Duke …
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Waiting to Respire
… and Saganbacteria were named for Carl Sagan, a renowned science popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus … Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …
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A Shrubbier Version of Rubber
… at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute …
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Marcel Huntemann
Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, functional annotation … on microbial genomes and metagenomes. He also works on automating intra-department data exchange and assists with …
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Engagement Webinar: How to Successfully Apply for a CSP Proposal
On September 1, JGI held a JGI Engagement: Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting … capabilities, technical feasibility, and relevance to the DOE’s mission.  Have someone proofread your proposal to make …
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Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting
Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The … this annual gathering of leaders from diverse disciplines to highlight how they are addressing the world’s most …
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Outreach Stories
Interested in reading more JGI intern and mentor success stories? Read more below. …
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Functional and genetic markers of niche partitioning among enigmatic members of the human oral microbiome
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Expanding Virophage Diversity
Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of known high …
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