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… Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative … weeks at the DOE JGI, Olmstead saw a few familiar faces, one of them belonged to his research adviser Axel Visel. …
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… Sun, Olena Vatamaniuk, Setsuko Wakao, Meng Wang, and Allison Werner. A total of 20 proposals were selected by the … their resources and capabilities to advance their DOE mission-relevant science. Supported by the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, the JGI provides advanced …
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… private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites and synthetic biology. Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward into his roles as a senior research … Nigel Mouncey is the Secondary Metabolites Program head as well as our JGI Director. …
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… For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental …
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… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted … to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon …
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… team announced in Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for c … us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already demonstrated CRAGE as a versatile engineering system that …
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… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small …
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… A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …
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… Innovative technology from this biomanufacturing collaboration is available for licensing. The Science In Nature Communications , researchers describe a strategy to recover high value … waste. They genetically modified yeast to efficiently convert elements present in urine to create hydroxyapatite, a …
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… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other … Some plants and fungi have mutually beneficial (e.g., mycorrhizal) relationships, but not all plants and fungi can …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers were studying Chromosome 5, which contains about 6% of the human … cancer. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had teams studying Chromosome 19, which contains about 2% of the human …
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