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… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development … (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes … Is Required for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems. Mol Cell . S1097-2765 Schulz F, et al. 2020. Giant virus diversity and …
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… a DOE Office of Science User Facility. This year, the 12th JGI-UC Merced cohort consisted of three undergraduate … postdoc Yumary Vasquez, was herself a program alum from the 2022 cohort. The UC Merced interns attended professional …
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… plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off with 12 plants, which are JGI Flagship Plants, mostly related to … Avinash: In the initial planning phase, there were about 10 groups that came together to standardize the experimental …
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… the global diversity of alternative genetic codes (Science 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science 2017, Nature Microbiology 2018), discovery of new genes with … from the human gut microbiome. Nature Biotechnol. 39(1):105-114. Schulz F, et al. (2020) Giant virus diversity and …
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… Serve the Changing Planet (download a copy at jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of … In service of solutions that will impact society, the 2024 strategic plan introduces the JGI’s new vision to lead …
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… the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By mining more … virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 … the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, “we provide a global …
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… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years … by the other study co-authors, and reconstructed from these 10 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) representing new … Marker genes for diverse methane metabolisms Of the 10 MAGs reconstructed in the study, five were from …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … chromosomes. These sequences account for approximately 12% of the total human genome, which itself was finally … of human chromosome 19 . Nature. 428, 529–535 (2004). doi:10.1038/nature02399 Schmutz, J., Martin, J., Terry, A. et …
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… This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many …
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… three strains of Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published May 2024 in Nature Genetics by an international research … to Land: Plant Evolution to Change’ (SPP 2237), and grant 410739858 in the frame of the project CharMod to K.v.S., as …
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… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the Industrial Biotechnology private sector, as … Application US8741603 Fermentative vitamin C production. (2012) U.S. Patent Application US8318462 Fermentation process. …
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