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… summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a … analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the sciences, …

… Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, … His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary …

… 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the Sequencing Technology Implementation Lead, … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, University of …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team … Liu, O., Akiva, E., Eyles, T. H., Galm, U., Ganesh, S., Hendrix, S. L. B., Hwang, W. W., Kim, J. H., … X. Metagenomic library and natural product discovery platform. WO2021163637A1 , PCT application PCT/US2021/018050 …

… Dr. Cole is interested in studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the … microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic components required for effective colonization. In addition, Dr. Cole is … University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., …

… in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal Program Head at the JGI, a Senior Scientist at … of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project …

… with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for … Jeremy Schmutz is the Plant Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this role he supervises the Genome … Together, these teams provide analysis support and R&D for production and user science. He received his Ph.D. from … BS in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, Nottingham University, UK PhD in …

… Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research … is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental … discovery pipeline and enrichment metagenomics for terrestrial protists. These approaches enable novel …

… 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale … Kjiersten Fagnan is the JGI's Chief Informatics Officer. Click to learn more about how the JGI … The Chief Informatics Officer provides advice and strategic direction for the overall design and …