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A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley … treatment as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem health. To facilitate in-depth …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, … efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … BP, Olson HM, Purvine SO, Salamov A, et al. Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. Proc … Sci Rep. 2013;3: 1656. … Education … Selected Publications …

New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging … for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … for bioproducts to support the bioeconomy. Functional diversity theme. Reading the genomes of individual organisms …

Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … including the genomic dynamics of biofuel-producing fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program … Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome composition and metabolism, work on which she will expand with her study of …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … a Genome Insider podcast minisode. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated culture …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … hot springs, an extreme environment with low genetic diversity that would help narrow down potential sources of …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This … change in science.” Mentor: Zhong Wang Project: “ Improving biosynthetic gene cluster annotation by leveraging a large …

… 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national user … them to better understand the impacts of drought on plant metabolism and particularly, what happens in the rhizosphere …

Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics … of algae, and sampling of the length and breadth of algal diversity, the numbers of sequenced algal genomes, and the …

… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … Mol Cell . S1097-2765 Schulz F, et al. 2020. Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar … Thomson Reuters …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … ethanol, an undesired product of the yeast’s native glucose metabolism Alper’s graduate student Xiunan Yi visited the …