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… the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Prior to this role, she served as the primary storyteller and social media manager for the JGI. She produced both text-based and multimedia stories that were then shared along with other JGI-relevant …

… decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to … into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've actually captured,” said … Explorations for Understanding the Microbial World Corresponding author Ivanova said that the JGI continues to …

… with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. Students also worked with their mentors to practice and develop presentation skills as well as … JGI also hosted events to enable students to showcase their work and even a celebratory toast at the end …

Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use …

… best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and … in species with large and complex genomes,” said Lovell. “However, new sequencing technologies have allowed us to … trying to leverage these discoveries to better understand how plants tolerate stresses and challenges in the natural …

… vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this previously retired Naval Commander … will serve the JGI and KBase for years to come.” A slideshow depicting 15-years of photo memories of Ray’s tenure, … tenure, Ray said that he was pleasantly surprised to see how well the management skills he had learned during his …

Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing … were previously missed in knock-out screens. These results show that this singular library synthesized by JGI was …

… at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in …

… group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new genomics technologies, scaling up genomics analysis to peta-bases, and enabling data-driven science. This is a … and external scientists, the Wang group has developed customized data analyses and software to enable “grand-scale” …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements … genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities that seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, … Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked to replace yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, with some artistic …

… at the conference venue This inaugural event will bring together researchers across major ecosystems and disciplines who are developing and applying laboratory ecosystems to help transition microbiome science from largely …