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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and … about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions …

… OnLine Database celebrates 25 years as a vital resource for data contextualization The Science Since its launch 25 … Database has matured from six projects on a spreadsheet into a flagship  genomic metadata repository, making curated … sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and … with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee … . The following guest piece was written by Call, a postdoctoral fellow in the JGI Microbiome Data Science Group led by … Since early 2020, people all over the world have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to …

… Interns contributed to a number of projects, from refining lab protocols at the … Hour mentioned that she had gained knowledge in bioinformatics and machine learning. “Also,” she added, ”I’ve …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold … in the world combined. Harvesting peat for energy has been increasingly discouraged due to associated greenhouse gas … (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( …

… The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a full genome sequence, researchers have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that …

… at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  … collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.       …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each …

… journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear …

… Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and … Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to …

… Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … research team included scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, Brookhaven National …