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… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Antilles and a co-first author on the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify and classify the … funding for Volland through grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. …
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… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … his backyard in Tennessee — the birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. … When Lawrence embarked on his PhD program at UC Merced in 2013, this field was just beginning to develop and expand into …
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… Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled … large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific …
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… The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … is remarkably simple with only 7,500 genes, compared to 17,000 in the model alga Chlamydomonas . The genome is also … enables production strategies that optimize either solar-driven or fermentation-based oil synthesis. Since the genome …
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… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … mSystems paper , a team at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … activity in microbiomes. The initial analysis used over 12,000 metagenomes from diverse environments and grouped …
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… Since 2012, Mr. Shahab has led the development of an integrated platform for tracking JGI's sequencing projects and data warehousing. This … BS in Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia; MS in Computer Science, University of New South Wales, Australia …
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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … of symbiosis using genome-scale metabolic models ” Pedro Antonio Perez Ferrer : “I enjoyed meeting fellow interns and …
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… Setsuko Wakao, Meng Wang, and Allison Werner. A total of 20 proposals were selected by the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Molecular Foundry (TMF) for their collaborative … Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, the JGI provides advanced genomic capabilities and access to …
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… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … group, and is past lead of the Eukaryotic Genome Program (2010-2019), and JGI Chief Informatics Officer (2013-2016). Dr. …
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… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …
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