Search

… As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate … at UC Merced. CAMP is a statewide initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and supports …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . The global chocolate brands … cacao  – the tree that produces cacao beans – was released by a Mars, Inc.-led consortium through the Cacao Genome …

… Kathleen Scott, Tiffany Taylor, Setsuko Wakao and Benjamin Woolston. ] Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for … crops through transcriptional network mapping, developing microbial systems to convert renewable feedstocks into … processes for next-generation materials production. Enabled by the JGI, which is supported by the Department of Energy's …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome Institute grant  CSP-503076 …

… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and … interacts with cell signaling networks that control many basic cellular functions. It plays an important role in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which …

… Pictured from left: [Above] Hanin Alzubaidy, Markus Covert, Sheel C. Dodani, Kathryn Fixen, Jane Fudyma, Daniel S. Gregoire; [Middle] Andreas Guerrero, Michelle Hulin, Aditya Kunjapur, Seung Hwan … research to develop  applications ranging from engineering microbial enzymes that unlock novel biochemical pathways, to …

… Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … proposals have been accepted from 70 full submissions based on 92 letters of intent. Additionally, 40 percent of … initiatives in bioenergy crop improvement and terrestrial carbon transformations.” The JGI’s large-scale call included …

… Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … of Delaware. Along with the existing UEC members, their areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re … JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River …