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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National … Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute! This is the first science Nobel awarded to two women, with Charpentier …

… Four researchers have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the … State University, Jonathan Eisen of the University of California, Davis, and Michael Köpke of Lanzatech are the latest …

… Metagenomic datasets could help map out microbial diversity … the microbial diversity we know about, and proposes a path forward to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We … much of their diversity we've actually captured,” said co-first author Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when … down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to discover what …

… From August 21-23, 2023, attendees joined the JGI Annual Genomics … Hungate , of Northern Arizona University, delivered the first keynote address of the 2023 JGI Annual Meeting. As the … is wild,” and admitting, “friends give me a hard time for that.” But the title brought him back to his first …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that … back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … no single AT group was conserved across all species — a surprise for an enzyme that plays a central role in …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of … Using this model, researchers also generated the first transcriptomic dataset of sexual reproduction in early fungi and discovered genes that are critical for this process. The Impact In the absence of the …

… As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted … for researchers in this area. “Surprisingly, this was the first workshop of its kind on SIP metagenomics,” Malmstrom … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. … microbes in the lab,” noted Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author and research scientist in Nikos Kyrpides’  …

… pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE … experiences and what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed below are the interns, …

… In 2003, Dr. Pennacchio joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute and has focused … his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the genetic cause of a … of human epilepsy and subsequently generated one of the first mouse models for this common neurological disorder. In …

… 2024 was a year of firsts, including the flagship internship program … Institute. AAMU students spent two months in Berkeley, California honing their scientific skills and collaborating with …   Want to see past projects? Read more below         …   Internship Snapshots …