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… applications that span the lifecycle of activities at JGI - proposal submission and review, project and work order creation and management, automated sequence quality control and automation of microbial/metagenomic assemblies, portals that make data …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to … bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce these enzymes to break down … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s …

… Q&A followed by: 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm: Hosted Hoppy Hour @ Calicraft Brewing, Walnut Creek Where:  Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek Featuring a casual, candid, C-level panel discussion … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …

… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software includes: gRNA-SeqRET , an organism-agnostic CRISPR gRNA design tool BOOST , which provides a suite of … and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …

… The Science In  Nature Communications , researchers describe a strategy to recover high value products from human … yeast to efficiently convert elements present in urine to create hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide … produced by living organisms. The collaboration between the JGI and the Foundry on this project highlights an  ongoing …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a … JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic … E. coli  in order to monitor population dynamics in co-culture. These experiments aim to inform the engineering of …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for … over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the Eukaryotic Genome Program (2010-2019), and JGI Chief Informatics Officer (2013-2016). Dr. Rokhsar …

… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the … achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. Academy Fellows are eminent leaders in the field …

… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the … of viral diversity and virus-host interactions in microbial systems. Through a 2021 DOE Early Career Research … and evolutionary drivers of virus-host dynamics in soil microbial communities. …

… sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus … biotechnological applications. These applications include crop improvement insights that could benefit candidate … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 … workflows for polar and nonpolar metabolite analysis, creation of large metabolite databases by running 1000s of … metabolite turnover, DNA-SIP for helping identify active micro-organisms within complex communities, and custom …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … discovery, design, and engineering. She earned her PhD in Microbiology and Cell Science in 2011 from the University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene …