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Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award , one of DOE’s highest honors! Tringe, a microbiologist, was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of …

Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the … a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef … Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This … collaboration, with some artistic endeavors along the way. Eventually, the goal is to create an entirely …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great …

… technologies, scaling up genomics analysis to peta-bases, and enabling data-driven science. This is a group of … of genome and computational technologies, in the coming years the Wang group will continue its effort to explore new … metagenome binning software … Education … Selected Publications … Software …

Massie S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager … outreach efforts. Ms. Ballon has a degree in molecular biology & biochemistry from Wesleyan University, and a … Equity & Accountability (IDEA) Chairs Council.   … 2020-2021, UC Women’s Initiative (North Cohort) UC Managing …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American …

… factors that control how genes are turned on is known as DNA affinity purification sequencing or DAP-seq. The … Technologies Group. In an article published November 25, 2021 in Nature Methods , JGI researchers led by co-first … ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that there is no shortage of fungal genomes …

… the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the pandemic, 2023 gave interns the opportunity to be fully immersed in …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome …

Dr. Grigoriev joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and … in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal Program Head at the DOE Joint Genome … … Fungal & Algal Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …