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Genome Sequence of Thermotoga sp. Strain RQ2, a Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Isolated from a Geothermally Heated Region of the Seafloor near Ribeira Quente, the Azores
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Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring
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Synthetic Biology Informatics Group
… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software … and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, through its  … Ecosystems (ARBRE) (ANR-11-LABX 0002 01 to F. Martin), JGI Community sequencing program project (CSP570, …
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Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names ‘Nitrosococcus halophilus’ and ‘Nitrosomonas mobilis’
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Arboriscoccus pini gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the class Alphaproteobacteria, emended description of Geminicoccus roseus, and proposal of Geminicoccaceae fam. nov.
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High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Ensifer sp. PC2, isolated from a nitrogen-fixing root nodule of the legume tree (Khejri) native to the Thar Desert of India
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High Five: Celebrating the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program
UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel … of graduate students summer research experience at the JGI. On July 26, 2018, the JGI celebrated the culmination of …
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Daniel Udwary
Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests … gene clusters in bacteria and fungi. Prior to joining the JGI, he spent time as a faculty member at the University of … HPC consultant with NERSC. Dr. Udwary co-hosts JGI’s "Natural Prodcast" podcast, a "fireside chat"-style …
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Simon Roux
Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the … to link viruses to their host(s), collaboration with JGI users for analyzing viral datasets, and the organization … and currently leads the Viral Genomics group at the JGI to further explore the ecological and evolutionary …
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Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the … by this most prestigious honor,” said Axel Visel , JGI Deputy for Science Programs. “It clearly speaks to the …
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Crysten Blaby-Haas
Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership between JGI and the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale research and … the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial …
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