Partnerships Development Team

The CSP provides the scientific community at large with access to high-throughput sequencing and other resources at the JGI for projects of relevance to Department of Energy missions. Click to learn more. 

SPPs enable research funded by an Industry partner to perform a defined scope of work using the JGI’s unique facilities, equipment, and personnel. Sponsor may elect to obtain the entire right, title, and interest to any intellectual property generated under the agreement.

CRADAs enable research jointly sponsored by the Berkeley Lab and one or more partners for shared benefit. Industry partners can retain rights to their own inventions and have the first right to license Lab inventions generated through the CRADA. 

New Leaf Symbiotics is partnering with the JGI and Berkekely Lab Biosciences Area to quantify atmospheric gas mitigation properties of multiple rice plant growth promotion technologies using methanotrophs.

Anuvia Plant Nutrients is partnering with the JGI to help drive discoveries that will render new economic advantages for farmers concerned with improving sustainable soil management practices.

In June 2020, the Department of Energy announced the 2020 TCF projects. One of them supports a project between JGI and LanzaTech, a Skokie, Illinois-based company that recycles carbon emissions to make fuels and chemicals, improving air quality and promoting a circular economy.

• Acetogenic Clostridium is considered the most efficient method of converting abundant low-cost gas feedstock into valuable bioproducts, but many Clostridium strains are difficult to engineer.
• Yasuo Yoshikuni and his JGI colleagues have developed a technology called chassis-independent recombinase-assisted genome engineering (CRAGE), which offers single-step genomic integration and prototyping of complex pathways. The team will be working with LanzaTech to rapidly engineer a Clostridium strain for the production of biofuels and bioproducts from low-cost gas feedstock.
• For more information about the supported Berkeley Lab TCF projects, visit the Intellectual Property Office here.