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Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! … related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. A 2020 Nature Genetics paper describing the genomes of …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, particularly … Characterization of p-hydroxycinnamate catabolism in a soil Actinobacterium. J. Bacteriol. 196, 4293-4303. Otani, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Agency , methane gas warms the atmosphere as much as 25 times more quickly than even carbon dioxide. The EPA … their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … Facility located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to providing metagenome mining for computational analysis of the AT … around, regardless of malfunction or misplacement.  In studying this family of ATs, researchers found that these …

Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome …

… “you-wren”) of the University of Arizona! They join nine other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to … investigator who has been an active user of the JGI at any time in the past two fiscal years is eligible for election …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to … increased capacities and faster sequencing, and at the same time help us manage costs. We have also scaled DNA-affinity … algorithms to identify billions of protein sequences in metagenomes.  We continue to engage with our user community …

… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant … Director Mary Maxon, among the contributors to the real-time chat during Ray’s All-Hands tribute wrote, “Thanks for …

Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace Cole, Mo Kaze, Akshay Paropkari, Vicente Ramirez and Rhondene Wint had summer 2018 internships in Walnut Creek. The … It’s fun to be around people who are generous with their time and like nerding out about the big stuff, well, the …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … maize. By deciphering the zealexin synthesis pathway, this study makes it possible to harness the protective function … maize, which has been largely overlooked, according to the study’s senior author Alisa Huffaker, a biologist at the …

… has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for … , 2023 Wu et al. Structural characterization of a soil viral auxiliary metabolic gene product - a functional …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment … their functional roles in their community. This study shows how the function-driven, single-cell screen can …