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… 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the Biodesign Platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP … Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial molecular biology Post-doctoral positions  – … et al ., gRNA-SeqRET: a universal tool for targeted and genome-scale gRNA design and sequence extraction for …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, … state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from … offers us the possibility to explore genomically the whole complex of progenitors and descendant species and, …

… and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research projects from … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

… are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like … because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along …

… data gathered from whole samples rather than single cells or isolated strains, is easy to generate, but … biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector … Lab’s Biological Systems and Engineering), to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying …

… from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their … support understanding of plants, microbes and environmental communities that have relevance for DOE’s bioenergy and … manager in 2006 when the JGI transitioned from human to microbial genetics. Drell held the role until he retired in …

… crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model … at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The reference genome built off more than a decade of …