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… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) … new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures … how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these …

… Diatoms, a group of tiny algae, are also known as “living … strange, beautiful properties of their silica shells. But what genes are responsible for such mesmerizing exteriors? Setsuko Wakao and Kris Niyogi, biologists at both UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National …

… Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the Genome Analysis group. … and cancer genetics. Dr. Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental … in human and other vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project scientist and then as a research …

… some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their … biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — …

… Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The … data analysis, and new technology developments – that the JGI offers through proposal calls on a competitive, …

… Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and …

… To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. …

… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and … or another, they’ve all mentioned how invaluable their time at the JGI was and how great it was to have an experienced career …

… trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing plants to harness for bioenergy. In this episode, hear from Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists who have uncovered remarkable genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an economical and …

… Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and … Lab), Woyke currently serves as the interim deputy for JGI User Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the …

… The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings … discussions, workshops, and informal networking events. JGI will present both a genome center talk and a tech talk. Stop by the JGI booth to learn about our user programs and how we can …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome … and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s emerging AI-enabled … and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late 2025, he served as Director of Scientific Computing at …