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Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as … the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is …

On February 17, 2021, JGI and the Environmental Molecular Sciences … just one research proposal. Guest speaker Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara talked about how her approved FICUS … Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) program. Letters of Intent are due March 17, 2021. Q&A from the Webinar: …

Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” …

The human-centered, agile collaboration between the JGI and the … from the other JGI Portals, as well. “For thousands of scientists around the world, the JGI Genome Portal is a critical resource — it provides access to all of JGI’s genomic databases and tools,” noted  Kjiersten …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit …

On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI Engagement: Accessing … really fully exist back then,” said Hal Alper, a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard … the researchers will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and ability to adapt to …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by … and synthesis work. This is where the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …