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Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an …

… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our … challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years …

Specializing in mass spectrometry-centered projects, Dr. Bowen’s work focuses on developing high-performance computing workflows and integrating … Google Scholar. … Education … Awards and Honors … Selected Publications …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … here.” Mentor: Lorenzo Aureli Project: “ Exploring the epigenetic basis of pathogenicity in bacteria” Erika Maquiling …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, … was theorized that sex determination was possibly driven by genetics, or even temperature. By sequencing the genome, …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost … to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called FastTree …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … “All along the way, it was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … expanded 10-fold from just 205 genomes, redefining the phylogenetic tree of giant viruses. Metabolic Reprogramming a …

Dr. I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and object-oriented data modeling, and biological data management. She was one of the … in an Academic Setting, SSDBM 14, July 2014 … Selected Publications …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics … Sci Rep. 2013;3: 1656. … Education … Selected Publications …

Research in the Analysis R&D group focuses on developing new bioinformatics solutions to support JGI in adopting new … metagenome binning software … Education … Selected Publications … Software …