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The JGI Project Management Office carries out a number of activities to facilitate world-class science. PMO works … staff to onboard users and guide them through the process of working with our facility. This includes help with: …

… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers … around the world have collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper River Delta wetland pond, cycle carbon. Using plots at the Harvard Forest long-term warming experiment, Kristen DeAngelis of the University …

A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for … and field experiments due to its potential for habitat restoration and as a feedstock for biomass-based biofuel … 4X and 8X linked to climate adaptation. Overall, these results indicate that the 8X represent a unique combination …

Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our group also seeks out new approaches that utilize microfluidics/microdroplet technology in order to enhance the …

… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … cottons, along with noted key fiber development genes. The results indicate remarkably high overall sequence similarity … noted that he talks to growers about Cotton Inc.’s long-term investment in crop research. “What I have told our …

The JGI’s DNA Synthesis Program supports a wide range of projects, from single-gene synthesis to the synthesis of entire chromosomes, advancing the development of biofuels, biochemicals and other bioenergy solutions.  …

JGI and the Workforce Development & Education department of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) … summer research collaborations through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) . The VFP … student. Applications are solicited annually for the summer term (May through August) and selected projects will receive …

Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … attempts at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help … bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research to determine what genes respond to drought conditions, and how … life cycle of the plant. The first year’s gene expression results were  published in the  Proceedings of the National …

UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for …