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Dan Rokhsar
Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the … over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s Computational Genomics group, and is past lead of the …
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Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names ‘Nitrosococcus halophilus’ and ‘Nitrosomonas mobilis’
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A Synthetic Gene Library Yields a Previously Unknown Glycoside Phosphorylase That Degrades and Assembles Poly-β-1,3-GlcNAc, Completing the Suite of β‑Linked GlcNAc Polysaccharides
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An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria
A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving … this Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Newscenter story and this piece in  Current Opinion in … select group of bacterial strains as part of the Community Science Program (CSP)  Functional Genomics proposal call. …
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Game On: High School Students Drive Everglades Metagenomics Study
In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … Metagenome Program Head at the  U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) , a DOE Office of Science User Facility. She took special interest in it …
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JGI-KBase Panel at SACNAS
Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? … for anyone to get credit for their contributions to science. A panel of DOE researchers, program managers, and intern alumni will …
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Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … Genomics and Systems Biology Division of the Lab’s Biosciences Area since 2018. Woyke also holds appointments as … Symposium which is being held in conjunction with the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s 15th Annual Genomics of Energy …
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The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 2: Souped Up Computing
This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. … Perlmutter that works at large scale. But nearby the JGI, a cluster called Dori is also capable of running smaller assemblies — so we head there for a sense of what this supercomputing looks like. …
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A Redesign for Yeast’s Genome, Chromosome by Chromosome
To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang …
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I-Min (Amy) Chen
Dr. I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research … currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of …
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Triggering Morel Fruiting
… led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the … and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on …
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The Megadata of Lake Mendota – Part 3: Boating Out to David Buoy
This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two …
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