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… alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha … why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also … like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …

… studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was … Dr. Cole is focusing on how individual plant cells respond to their biotic environment using emerging single-cell … characterization technologies (scRNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics). …

… JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hosted a pitch event promoting … summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP …

… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome … human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed … assembly, and improvement strategies for de novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large …

… the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for synthetic biology and functional genomics. … National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, … You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and …

… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to … years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread … to pathogens. Dr. Vogel’s current research is focused on developing plant functional genomic resources (e.g. …