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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … the JGI DNA synthesis Community Science Program (CSP) Functional Genomics, the system allows scientists to test …

… contributions, is key to understanding their ecosystem functions in processes ranging from nutrient cycling to … been utilizing metagenomics as a way to study a collection of hard-to-culture microbes, but the efficacy of this … of the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program in 2013, a team of researchers has been working on improving …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … from half of the United States. As  reported January 27, 2021 in  Nature , the team led by researchers at the … and are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted genome editing techniques to customize the crop for …

… for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … fluctuating environmental conditions. The team aims to functionally link gene families to photosynthesis and … National Laboratory (PNNL). The proposal focuses on an aspect of the  Phenotypic Response of the Soil Microbiome to …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in … technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he … BS, Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Master's, Biotechnology, University of Tokyo …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the … diverse plant tissues. Dr. Baumgart focuses on expanding functional genomics capabilities through process automation …

… efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … for polar and nonpolar metabolite analysis, creation of large metabolite databases by running 1000s of metabolite … for integrating metabolomics with genomic data (MAGI) for functional annotation and identifying unknown compounds …

… Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at …

… University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 2006) … List of pubs available on NCBI … Implementation of the Index of Cell Identity as an R package … Selected Publications … Software …

… Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, … Neri et al., 2023. Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of …

… Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the …

… Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth … Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline  that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within …