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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]

Earth Microbiome Project in Sacramento Bee

To understand microbes (Bacterial, Archaeal, Eukaryal and Viral) in terms of whom they are and what they do is the challenge of microbial ecology. The EMP presents a revolution in how this problem is tackled and defines both questions and potential suite of tools to provide answers.  Key participants in this unprecedented project include BGI,… [Read More]

Earth Microbiome Project in GenomeWeb

BGI will provide a range of services and support for the Earth Microbiome Project, an effort to sample, sequence, and analyze microbial communities from all over the globe. The multi-disciplinary EMP effort, the largest sequencing project yet undertaken, will conduct metagenomics studies of 200,000 samples of microbes from soil, air, sea, and freshwater systems from… [Read More]

Stressed metagenome study on Pollution Online

“We are looking to better understand the evolution of microbes in the groundwater plume,” Watson said. “The microbes that can break down nitrate into nitrogen can have a long-term benefit toward attenuating the plume.”  Watson added that researchers particularly want to better understand the genetic makeup of microbes that can metabolize oxidized forms of uranium… [Read More]

Brachypodium project on Huffington Post

In a study published Feb. 11 in the journal Nature, researchers from the department’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, which is managed in part by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, sequenced a form of wild grass in order to derive a genome specifically adapted for biomass and biofuel production. Read more at The Huffington Post.  [Read More]

JGI’s involvement in Human Microbiome Project on GenomeWeb

The center’s Web portal aims to provide researchers with web-based visualization and query applications and software, as well as a robust computational analysis of HMP data. The Website also hosts information on standing operating procedures, a resource for community involvement in reference strain selection, and quality control measures. In order to meet all of the… [Read More]

JGI receives ARRA funding for new equipment

The funding is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act approved by Congress in February. Saturday’s announcement marks the third and final round of funding for scientific research, instrumentation and laboratory infrastructure projects, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Of the $37.8 million awarded to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, $13.1 million is slated… [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]

“Bay Area national labs get new Recovery Act funding”

A $327 million initiative to bolster research and infrastructure programs at national laboratories is funneling more than $61 million to Bay Area facilities, the Department of Energy announced on Tuesday. Under the initiative, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will get $37.8 million in federal Recovery Act funding, with $11 million designated for fusion energy research, $13.1 million… [Read More]

“Bay Area labs rake in stimulus”

California laboratories cleaned up in the Department of Energy’s latest stimulus announcement…. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will receive $40.3 million to fund research in biofuels, nuclear fusion and the electrical grid. At Lawrence Berkeley Lab, the $40.3 million will be divvied among the Joint Genome Institute, the accelerator and fusion research divisions, the Advanced Light… [Read More]