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WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based … computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), … (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, aims to explore applications in the life sciences that can be …

… one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products … University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … Highly Cited Researcher, Biology and Biochemistry, top 1%, by Clarivate Analytics 2020 van Niel International Prize for …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the … journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that … Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their schedules were filled with … Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting …

… month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley … to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the filamentous fungus  Neurospora crassa, and to …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. … to convert them into energy that is then stored. A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for … dioxide to generate multi-carbon compounds through a light-driven process. The JGI’s  CSP Functional Genomics call is …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated the …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine … Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of … are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in  Nature Reviews …