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… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny Mortimer, Director of Plant Systems Biology at the Joint BioEnergy … below. Q&A from the Webinar: Q(uestion): Is it possible to directly measure environmental or biological samples …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. …

… [subhed -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and …

… site. The chemical PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … genome sequence was not in IMG/M when the NRAP samples were originally analyzed a decade ago. The NRAP site is still …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to bring together a “Viral EcoGenomics” community to foster … and virtual attendees! Click here for the event photos. Keynote Speakers Katrine Whiteson , UC Irvine Chase Morgan , …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently … genome duplication, which occurs in two basic ways. In “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single …

… at Cornell, IBM, Utah State University, and semiconductor equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to …

… studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was … Dr. Cole is focusing on how individual plant cells respond to their biotic environment using emerging single-cell … (scRNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics). … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   …