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… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. In this role … these teams provide analysis support and R&D for production and user science. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cambridge … Nottingham University, UK PhD in Genomics, University of Cambridge, UK Postdoctoral training Wellcome Trust Sanger …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … perhaps for the absence of all the other letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters … the genomes of multiple species in a single experiment. “Effectively, you can identify conserved binding patterns …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral … closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in …

… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … needed to foster interdisciplinary collaborations,” says Philipp Zerbe, the lead PI on this project. “I view the …

… Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining … programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the Joint BioEnergy … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the …

… recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local … crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science … Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Mike earned his PhD in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from Yale …

… working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, … years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread … to experimental manipulation in the laboratory because of its compact genome, diploid nature, self compatibility, …