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… the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the Industrial Biotechnology private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary …
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Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and … research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify …
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… 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team led by researchers at the …
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Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. … 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI … Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes …
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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold … soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual …
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More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s … California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program that offered a handful …
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A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread …
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… fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”). A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, … the University of California, Riverside and Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … until seven years later. In 2018, as members of the ZyGoLife consortium , my colleagues and I decided to re-visit …
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Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has supported over 250 projects since … Discovering untapped biochemistry in microorganisms from hidden corners. Nature Review Microbiology , 2022 …
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