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… was made possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … with co-first author David Burstein, then a postdoctoral fellow with Doudna and longtime JGI collaborator Jill Banfield, …

… the complex wiring behind a city’s power grid. Just as the flow of electricity controls when and where lights turn on or … regulation determines when and where genes are activated to sustain life’s processes.  Traditionally, mapping this intricate network of regulatory “switches” in plants at a large scale was akin to …

… that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … challenges. While a hill of beans may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is … bean, identifying genes related to disease-resistance, flowering time, nitrogen metabolism, seed weight and …

… month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments and plant-microbial interactions in crops. He has been a PI or Co-PI …

… gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex … shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene …

… ActinoBase offers a public portal of insight into special groups of actinobacteria Streptomyces is more … bacteria potentially holds the key to discovering new antiviral medicines and treatments for infectious disease. … and the focus of a  recent paper published in  Microbial Genomics .   “Studying actinomyces, especially …

… featured speakers who shared a look back at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human … JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these talks below, starting with Ari Patrinos. The Genomics Arms Race Ari … manager in 2006 when the JGI transitioned from human to microbial genetics. Drell held the role until he retired in …

… Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome … that finished the DOE human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, … novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large vertebrate genomes.  For the past 13 years, Mr. …

… annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled capabilities for … and AI for large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at Predicine, an NGS-based …

… of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further …     Mo Kaze, UC Merced JGI Mentor : Susannah Tringe, Microbial Systems Group “Everyone here is very kind and …

… In  Nature Communications , researchers describe a strategy to recover high value products from human waste. They   genetically modified yeast to efficiently convert elements present in urine to create … million annually.  The team is working on developing new microbial strains that can synthesize other bio-based …

… Webinar held November 5, 2020 (watch the  video below, captions are available) spotlighted the metabolomic … JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny Mortimer, Director of Plant Systems Biology at the Joint BioEnergy … Q:  Any advice on normalizing metabolomic data from a whole microbial community, without having cell counts or …