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… Mi Yan, Deanna Beatty)    Vision  Lead AI-driven genomic innovation to advance biotechnology. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the Biological …

… 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — … degradation.  “We are  very excited to see the outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s … CSP investigators,” said Tanja Woyke, Deputy Director of JGI’s User Programs. “Many of these projects are large in …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes contribution of scholarship in the field of microbiology and is awarded …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing … closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Kjiersten Fagnan is the JGI's Chief Informatics Officer. Click to learn more about how the JGI supports the …

… Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay … their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has …

… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed … specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M …

… Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and Sheree Yao. ] ] The …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, …

… between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE …