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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … PI on this project. “I view the program as an excellent platform to build collaborative research initiatives.” Yasuo …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even … reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have …

… Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; [middle] … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, from alpine soils to …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated … would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and associate their sequences with … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … of researchers sought to disrupt every gene in the genome with CRISPR-Cas9 in order to interrogate each one’s …

… Kumar Gautam, Gareth Gillard, Audrey Goeckner, Jennifer Goff, Sarah Gonzalez Henao, Yang Hai, Julia G. Harenčár, … find a list of researchers whose proposals were accepted for 2026. With the JGI's resources, these researchers will … pathways for high-value bioproducts, and plant–microbe interactions that enhance crop resilience and soil health. …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … the alga has all the genes needed for meiosis, and thus can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s … (IGSP 2008001) to DA, FL, and FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic Sciences and Policy (for DNA sequencing and …

… Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and Sheree Yao. ] ] The JGI welcomed 14 scientists selected for our 2026 Community Science Program Large Scale call. … next-generation feedstocks through CRISPR-edited poplars with optimized lignin, engineering heat-resilient algae for …

… their work delivered during the 5th anniversary celebration of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI … : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has further confirmed by … have done the groundbreaking work you’ve been reading about for years! And you can ask them about it! And they’re super …

… (CSP) . This includes mass spectrometry-based measurements of primary and secondary metabolites from plants, … involved? How long does it take to do all the analyses? A:  For the JGI  New Investigator and  Functional Genomics … molecules exchanged between plants and microbiomes during interactions? Is it reliable performing an untargeted …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access …