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Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , …

With a background in experimental and computational surface physics, Dr. Goodstein held … focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to … plant genomics.      Nucleic Acids Research 40, D1178. Publications … Scientific Advisory Board member, InterMine …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission … to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and … … DNA Synthesis Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant …

… research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the Joint … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the … … Metabolomics Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

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, … bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in North Sea algal blooms. The workflow starts by tagging specific cells using …

…   Join the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Environmental … to stay informed … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This … of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and …