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Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … and in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are … with a maternal  B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million years ago (Mya), while the S plastotype was a …

… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … function in such extreme conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and …

… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … sequencing, they were able to identify the target genes of 11 sigma factors in Streptomyces coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions is part of the …

… (UC), Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR), US Department of Agriculture P­­lant Gene Expression Center, … Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in …

… (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … is part of the JGI Genome R&D Group and is one of more than 100 scientists and systems engineers involved in …

… novel technique to access high-quality genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from individual … Other firsts followed. The next year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from … and characterize more than 200 microbial genomes that were mapped to nearly 30 major previously uncharted branches of …

Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth … the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. …