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… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made … the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be … the water column, from the warm, well-lit surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of …

… “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of … focus on a genotype with two identical sets of chromosomes to produce a monoploid reference sequence. For the highly … sorghum and maize, sugarcane can grow on nutrient-poorer soils and does not need to be planted annually. The modern …

… site. The chemical PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via … mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. …

… team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The … CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … challenges. Maximizing soybean yield is critical to energy independence in the U.S. Not only does it pair … it simply doesn’t yield enough gallons of fuel per acre to compete with gasoline. Yet.  In 2010, soybean became the …

… Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became … for community sequencing projects and heads R&D efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product … mass spectrometry research products such as stable isotope probing (SIP) to assess metabolite turnover, DNA-SIP …

… annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled capabilities for … and AI for large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at Predicine, an NGS-based …

… studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was … Dr. Cole is focusing on how individual plant cells respond to their biotic environment using emerging single-cell … characterization technologies (scRNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics). …

… with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse genetics to test those hypotheses. From 2011 – 2015, she worked with … National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellow, expanding her experimental repertoire to …

… Genome Assembly, QA/QC, and User Support Analysis teams. Together, these teams provide analysis support and R&D for … editing and cancer genetics. Dr. Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate …

… design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. …

… University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and …