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… Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based …

… Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years evolving tactics against potential threats. …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a … questions, a team led by scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … regional temperatures. For this reason, the U.S. Department of Energy is overseeing the SPRUCE (Spruce and Peatland …

… BS – University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Chemical Engineering Ph. D. – … 2024 Berkeley Lab Recognition of Excellence Award 2016 R&D 100 Winner 2014 Berkeley Lab … T., Ruebel, O., Northen, T., & Bowen, B. (2015). Analysis of metabolomics datasets with high-performance computing and …

… chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the … provides engineers concrete targets for optimization. Many of the metabolic switches identified are shared across …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, leaving potential targets for crop …

… efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … techniques, the platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples in support of user science.  Capabilities offered by the platform are a …

… University of California, San Diego (PhD, 2011) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 2006) … List of pubs available on NCBI … Implementation of the Index of Cell Identity as an R package … Selected Publications … Software …

… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Methodologies workshops. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prizewinning team at the Supercomputing …