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… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal … to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of nutrients in these systems.” -Mike Wilkins, Colorado State University GI users …

… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our … capable of knocking down human RNA the way that CRISPR-Cas9 systems snip DNA. This could eventually lead to applications …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey bees and … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic … This work was supported by the Plant-Microbe Interfaces program at the Oak Ridge National …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a … notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s … Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of … integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable systems-based scientific approaches to …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to … more active in fixing and metabolizing nitrogen, a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig … Czech Academy of Sciences first needed to build a detailed database on the denizens in the soil. While large protein …

… In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to … JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and …