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… Hao Chen, Jay Chen, Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, … Yao. ] ] The JGI welcomed 14 scientists selected for our 2026 Community Science Program Large Scale call. This …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other … plants and fungi have mutually beneficial (e.g., mycorrhizal) relationships, but not all plants and fungi can form …

… data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing.  Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations … NEON. This includes access to the NEON Biorepository at Arizona State University, which archives and makes available … more about BioSANS. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021 for the FICUS proposal call. Q&A from the Webinar: …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as a … To this end, a team of researchers led by Jeremy Schmutz of the JGI and the HudsonAlpha Institute for …

… This single environmental trigger highlights efficiency for users … chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under … that shift provides engineers concrete targets for optimization. Many of the metabolic switches identified are shared …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … JGI researchers consider regularly writing for the magazine’s column Genome Watch? The column appears in six issues …

… Knockout experiments showcase potential for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at Brookhaven … ability to grow incredibly fast. They can also be hybridized to produce desirable traits.  Partly enabled by the JGI  … Research, as part of the Quantitative Plant Science Initiative (QPSI) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint … genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at … led the NGS Software team and metagenomic data platform at Zymergen, a synthetic biology company that went public and …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their … focus has been on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic components required for effective colonization. In addition, Dr. Cole is focusing on how individual … of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 2006) …

… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s … but unbeknownst to Ray and most of the rest of the 200-plus Zoom participants. While the virtual mic shifted to Ray for …

… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley … thousands of researchers in genome projects and organized numerous genomics workshops. … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  … Santa Barbara Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University Post-doc in Metabolomics, The Scripps …