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To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and …

With a background in experimental and computational surface physics, Dr. … equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to … of interest and gene copy number variation across multiple genomes.  eLife 11, e78526. Li et al., 2021.  Plant …

… biomass. This is of interest for bioenergy researchers looking to improve the industrial production of sustainable … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … enriching the work being done as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Funding for the project was also provided …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants … can offer scientists a more colorful palette of options; beyond off and on, scientists can determine the level of … systems, expanding the technologies available for other JGI users outside the realm of bioenergy optimization. …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient … deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re looking at: the role viral infection may play in other …