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A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a … team announced in Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for c … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the …
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On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was …
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Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission … synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This … has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology …
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… sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …
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Ancient Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … other forms of Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago. The Impact … by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley …
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JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to …
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Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in …
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Hear more about what they learned from working with their JGI mentors, what challenges they overcame, and what new … Edward Lu and mentor Miguel Romero Sean Saki and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Sivagunalan Thamilarasan and … And also specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the …
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… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …
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Dr. Udwary serves as a computational biologist for JGI’s Secondary Metabolites group. His research interests lie in use and development of bioinformatics tools for elucidation of biosynthetic gene …
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Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support Analysis … Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome … function in bacteria. Since 2016, he has been the lead of the User Support Analysis group. The group performs …
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Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ …
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