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JGI Science @ the Lesher in Financial Tech Spotlight

The one-celled creatures are now part of a major research initiative at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to explore ways to recapture more of the 6 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide human activities generate annually The researchers, who will speak Monday evening at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, are working with the… [Read More]

JGI Science @ the Lesher in Contra Costa Times

The researchers, who will speak Monday evening at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, are working with the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, a federal facility for genetic sequencing of microbes and other life-forms. The terrestrial ecosystem, meaning everything on land — from plants to soil and other geological features —… [Read More]

Berkeley Lab’s requirements for second campus in San Francisco Business Times

Lawrence Berkeley Lab late Monday laid out the details for a new second campus. It is looking to consolidate facilities like the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland and the Life Sciences Division in West Berkeley. Read more in the… [Read More]

JGI CIO announcement on GenomeWeb

Markowitz will continue to lead the Biological Data Management and Technology Center while serving as a member of JGI’s senior management team, with responsibilities that include advising Director Eddy Rubin on issues concerning JGI’s technology infrastructure, how it can best be used, and what new equipment will be needed in the future. Read more on… [Read More]

Berkeley Lab boosts 2009 Bay Area economy on SF Business Times

In the city of Berkeley itself, some 1,700 jobs “were directly tied to Laboratory spending.” In 2009 the lab spent almost $200 million in Berkeley. Other local cities that got significant boosts were Walnut Creek, where the Joint Genome Institute is and Emeryville, where the Joint BioEnergy Institute is. Read more at the San Francisco… [Read More]

Archael transcriptome map on GenomeWeb

In a collaboration between scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Joint BioEnergy Institute, and the Joint Genome Institute, they have constructed a single-base resolution transcriptome map of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2, a well-studied model archaeal organism. More at GenomeWeb. [Read More]

Berkeley Lab’s Additional $40.3M ARRA Funding benefits DOE JGI

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will receive $40.3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support research in biofuels, fusion energy and the nation’s power grid and to ensure scientists have state-of-the-art equipment for their investigations…. Specifically, the $40.3 million… [Read More]