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… in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed … the Physics Department and in 2002 he became a Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development after his research interests shifted from condensed matter physics to computational biology, …

Biosciences Area Entrepreneurship Program presents… Eyes on the Prize – Launching & Sustaining Startups in Synthetic … Director, DOE Joint Genome Institute Read a synthesis from the panel discussion  here . Contact  Robin Johnston … genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. …

Register here Book your stay at the conference venue This inaugural event will bring together … laboratory ecosystems to help transition microbiome science from largely observational to reproducible mechanistic … The program fosters intimate, dynamic interactions, offering an unparalleled platform for exchanging ideas, …

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of … we look for novel research projects — aligned with DOE missions and from PIs who have not led any previously-accepted proposals …

… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In these sequences are …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the … California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural Sciences and started a program that offered a handful of graduate students summer research …

… include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped by dam removal to … mats — to reveal how these systems adapt and contribute to global biogeochemical cycles. Additional … large-scale genomic science projects relevant to the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting … their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But … traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … viruses are likely to infect, and (iii) identifying the genetic traits of the viruses to better understand their … is led by a team of highly experienced investigators from institutions including the University of Maryland and …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. … began in 2014, pairs undergraduate and graduate students from UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they …