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… ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered … were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  … that act like tiny natural engineers with special skills to break down pollutants and recycle carbon. They were part …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … plants can’t run away, they’ve evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the … an assistant professor at the University of Delaware — is  building on this work to explore an enzymatic ‘toolbox’ of …

… user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have … Submitted proposals addressed one of the following focus topic areas: Biofuels and bioproducts, Biogeochemistry, and … researchers. A missing gene from this mutant library leads to photosynthetic defects, offering insights into how algal …

… for growth yet essential for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which … Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due to the lack of robust tools …

Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics … Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea Du Toit, senior editor for  Nature Reviews Microbiology, with …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth … where her group focuses on the interactions between seagrasses, considered marine flowering plants, and their …

… featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks shed light on … Nigel Sussman recently finished at the Integrative Genomics Building, the JGI’s home at Berkeley Lab. Like the mural, …

… interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of biosynthetic gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he spent time as a faculty member at the … (1996) … List available on Google Scholar … Education … Publications …

… facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, … in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, Engineering, Tokyo … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …

… one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for scientific applications developed at Berkeley Lab. … in an Academic Setting, SSDBM 14, July 2014 … Selected Publications …

… 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI … 10.1038/s41564-019-0573-8 Diamond S. et al. Mediterranean grassland soil C-N compound turnover is depth stratified, … … Metabolomics Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

… computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and LBNL’s Computational Research … methods for reacting subsurface flows, and evolved into scalable methods for scientific data analysis. In 2014 … … About the JGI Chief Informatics Officer … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …