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JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP … faculty members may invite up to two student participants from the faculty member’s home academic institution, one of …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the … The technology expresses the transcription factor proteins from a DNA template amplified directly from either genomic …

… data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one place where you can browse the … and what they do. Summary The name PhycoCosm stems from the Greek phykos , meaning seaweed. Seaweeds are algae, …

Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant representatives of deep subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers … foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these sequences are …

From left to right: [above] Olivia Ahern, Adriana Corales, … Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse portfolio of successful CSP proposals this year,” noted Tanja Woyke, … large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated … the third is determining the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  … (Try it yourself  here .) She translated her abstract from a 2019 conference. Both versions appear side-by-side …

… include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped by dam removal to … degradation.  “We are  very excited to see the outcome of the innovative research  being proposed by this year’s … CSP investigators,” said Tanja Woyke, Deputy Director of JGI’s User Programs. “Many of these projects are large in …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … podcast minisode.)  In 2016, the JGI accepted a proposal from Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … is led by a team of highly experienced investigators from institutions including the University of Maryland and …

UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was … JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for … began in 2014, pairs undergraduate and graduate students from UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they …