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In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 … As well as the seminal Human Genome Project DOE Chromosome publications: The DNA sequence and biology of human …

… projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of … (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for support from 53 received through a joint research call. Submitted … Nevada mountain range since 2014 to learn more about the microbial responses and feedbacks to warming through the …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, a saline …

Flavia Winck Vischi, Jennifer Wisecaver, Yaqi You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California … late 2022 and the election period concluded on Jan. 6, 2023. With the election, the following UEC members stepped down …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. … gammaproteobacterial species, and then removing the editing machinery afterward seamlessly. These collaborations and …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, …

… issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab … generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained by a workforce that numbered more than 100 at its peak, all the machines were switched off. Over the next two weeks, they …