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… The JGI welcomes three new members to the JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland … nine other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers … phenotypes and genotypes. Pawlowska, who studies fungal-bacterial symbiotic systems, noted that she would like to …

… 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. …

… is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his backyard in … from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC … Merced internship program, Lawrence is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory …

… 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 …

… wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant … of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and … have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, along …

… exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been … room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of …

… in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 … after countless generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained by a …

… and environment challenges. The JGI offers these solutions to the worldwide scientific community through its  User … , either in person at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), or from afar, online. Each day, a … and by understanding what these metabolites do in nature and what roles they play, we’ll see much more clearly …

… the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the Industrial Biotechnology private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites … Secondary Metabolites Program head as well as our JGI Director. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in … cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host …

… crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and … Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 and DBI-2047598 to K.A. We thank …