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… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their … the fungus and alga, either separately or together, on nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also … (IGSP 2008001) to DA, FL, and FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic Sciences and Policy (for DNA sequencing and …
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… vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and …
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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what …
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… Four researchers have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley …
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… Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted to expand its habitat range. … A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …
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… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training … experience funded by a DOE training grant. Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns …
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… from their summer experiences at the JGI Berkeley Lab offers a variety of programs to help inspire and train the next generation of STEM …
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… technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, … in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Master's, Biotechnology, University of Tokyo …
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… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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… Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled capabilities for … science. Dr. Sneddon is an accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab …
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… 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model …
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… Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed … science for JGI Plant Flagship Genomes and DOE relevant cellulosic feedstocks. He provides scientific project …
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