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… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy … Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the 5th Viral EcoGenomics and Applications (VEGA) symposium will take place November 18-19, 2026 on the UC Berkeley campus. Organized every two years since 2018, the goal of this … community to foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated viral diversity, understand …

… from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell … This research project was supported by a grant from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and the …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … processing these sturdy materials, rumen microbes and their enzymes are an optimal study subject that could lead to more …

… archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The Science Through a … microbial mats at Yellowstone offer researchers an analog for studying early Earth conditions. Additionally, … Molecular biology has benefited from heat-stable enzymes derived from thermophiles, stabilizing the …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are … and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability … 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for …

… we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area counties. The JGI, located at Lawrence … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean …

… marks 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 … living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah …

… the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that [DNA Synthesis Science Head] … the Functional Genomics (formerly DNA Synthesis) call, and he noted the data had driven his lab’s focus on guide …