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… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its … private sector, as well as research expertise in secondary metabolites and synthetic biology. Dr. Mouncey has a … Nigel Mouncey is the Secondary Metabolites Program head as well as our JGI Director. …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … i.e. in January. She talked about her  Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special …

… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

… decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a … holds keys to drought and flood resilience, biomass production for fuels, and growth in poor soils. In addition to … of Energy, the Gates Foundation, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the United States Agency …

… the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s … summer were: Rida Ali, who worked with T.B.K. Reddy on the Genomes OnLine Database; Sarah Fruchart , who worked with … worked with Zhong Wang’s group on an aspect of the same project assigned to Sharon and Cristhian; and, Lizhen Shi , …