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… A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal … role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break … The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Pictured from left: [Top row]: Romy Chakraborty, Dawn Chiniquy, Anne Glaesener, Steven Hallam, Marc Hanikenne, … Setsuko Wakao, Meng Wang, and Allison Werner.   A total of 20 proposals were selected by the Joint Genome Institute … (TMF) for their collaborative user program. The portfolio of research proposals integrates genomics with nanoscale …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing … closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Kjiersten Fagnan is the JGI's Chief Informatics Officer. Click to learn more about how the JGI supports the …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth …   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — …

… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … science.  Dr. Sneddon is an accomplished leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since been … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …