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For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report … fields. In a living cell, triplets of nucleotides, or codons, dictate which amino acids are assembled, which then …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads … design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and … function. … B.Sc. (HONS) – University of Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial …

On July 6, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … with 86 participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and … for agricultural products.  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods … to produce good yields under water limiting conditions. Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum (EPICON) is a …

… support entire ecosystems. Hear from researchers Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted to this extreme environment.   …

… one of the co-authors and key developers of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for scientific applications developed at Berkeley Lab. Dr. Chen is currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at …

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 science that will help solve energy and … DOE works with the National Nuclear Security Administration to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and was …

… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, but varied. They’re a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The … attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, …

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 science that will help solve energy and … lab and second author on the paper, studied viral genetics and gene therapy before self-training himself as a …

Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  Further analysis led to the identification of 328 “high quality” (based on …

… and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the … and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They …