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… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their biosynthetic logics to be …

… JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging partnerships to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for … (download a copy at jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with … of DOE resources. This approach, combining a forward-looking vision with a detailed implementation path, has …

… in March 2027 at the Oakland Convention Center. Check this page as further details become available. Sign up for our newsletter to receive updates.    … Stefani Ferreira , JGI Administrative and Logistics Support  …

… poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand how ecosystems work and how … their roots (known as the rhizosphere), researchers hope this massive and integrated data set will help identify how … Dubbed “the” bioenergy tree, poplars are known for their genetic diversity. They hold economic value as both biofuel …

… Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are … 6,600 researchers working in 21 fields appear on the list, and those from the JGI whose publications rank in the … in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity toward innovative biotechnological and …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became … for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product … offered by the platform are a result of Dr. Louie’s establishment of a strong core foundation of robust mass …

… The JGI’s data stewardship expertise and infrastructure enable a broad community of scientists and engineers to leverage our data to develop new algorithms, models and tools in support of … algal, fungal and microbial genomes and metagenomes — top-quality genomic data, open to all researchers. Book a …

… our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water … Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental tendencies The Science The  Metagenome … are a way to measure the collection of the microbiome’s genetic makeup. Microbes have specific tetranucleotide … etc. of natural environments shape specific genomic signatures that could be used to hypothesize environmental …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from … the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists … it’s difficult to link the connections to them from the genetic elements that scientists have found, e.g. plasmids …

… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium hybridum . …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  …