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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among … In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model species. The …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI … sweeps in natural bacterial populations. ISME Journal 10 (7), 1589 Kashtan, N et al. 2014. Single-cell … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of … switchgrass is polyploid. This means it contains more than two copies of the genome , which can have pronounced …

The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest … Hemisphere, making them tantalizing plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from Oak Ridge National … to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and materials. …

Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, functional annotation and methylomics) that run on microbial genomes and metagenomes. He also works on …

… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science … , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)  proposed sequencing a …

… and publish first-author papers, making the data available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt … started. Plus, Kalyani Maitra (California State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … challenges, characterizing viruses is a key step. For decades, though, many viruses have been somewhat … because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material …

… 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to … genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear …