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JGI Director to Step Down to Assume Scientific Helm of Startup

After 14 years guiding the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) from completing DOE’s contributions to the Human Genome Project to transitioning the Institute into a National User Facility enabling the science of thousands of researchers focused on energy and environmental problems, DOE JGI Director Eddy Rubin announced today that he will be… [Read More]

Harnessing Farm Animal Fungi for Fuel – in Forbes

“[O]ne of the by-products of this biochemical attack is poop, and that poop is full of the fungi and hundreds of their special enzymes. So literally, the scientists harvested this fungi from goat poop…. But isolating these enzymes and mapping their blueprints in DNA and RNA is not easy. In fact, it required the rare… [Read More]

Biofuel Tech Straight from the Farm

Research team taps EMSL, DOE JGI to harness promising fungi found in manure. Nature’s figured it out already, how to best break down food into fuel. Now scientists have caught up, showing that fungi found in the guts of goats, horses and sheep could help fill up your gas tank too. The researchers report in… [Read More]

Strategy to Uncover More Microbial Lineages

Biases in current sequencing technologies hide true breadth of microbial diversity. The Science DOE JGI researchers employed datasets from the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) system to determine how many microbial lineages might be missed from available sequences in existing datasets due to mismatches with currently used Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) primers. PCR is a technology… [Read More]

Tracking Microbial Mat Formation in Yellowstone

Assessing real-time contributions of microbial communities toward mat formation. The Science Researchers determined the contributions of different microbes toward the establishment of microbial mat communities in the hot and acidic environments of the Yellowstone Hot Springs. The Impact Microbial mats serve as model systems for studying microbial interactions and their influence over biogeochemical processes. Understanding… [Read More]

JGI Interns at UC Merced Earn CAMP Merit Awards

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote diversity and inclusion in science and research, two undergraduate students from UC Merced recently had summer internships in Walnut Creek. [Read More]

Seagrass Genome Sequence Lends Insights to Salt Tolerance

First marine flowering plant genome provides clues on how crops could adapt to saline environments. To mitigate carbon emissions in the atmosphere, researchers have turned to sinks–reservoirs that accumulate and store carbon such as tropical rainforests, but also including a variety of terrestrial plants as well as oceans. However, another lesser known but very large… [Read More]

Uncovering Hidden Microbial Lineages from Hot Springs

Metagenomics and single cell strategies help reveal a novel bacterial phylum. Although global microbial populations are orders of magnitude larger than nearly any other population in, on or around the planet, only a fraction has been identified thus far. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking to uncover the true extent of the planet’s… [Read More]

Highly Cited: 8 DOE JGI Researchers Make 2015 List

Millions of researchers worldwide publish millions of papers. Thomson Reuters compiles a Highly Cited Researchers database, listing based on the number of citations their work has received from fellow researchers. Among the factors that play into the database is the Essential Science Indicators in Web of Science, which tracks papers published in the past decade that rank in the… [Read More]

Genomic Basis for Herbivore Gut Syntrophy

Anaerobic fungi are found in the rumen or hindgut of large herbivores, where they partner naturally with methanogenic archaea in a type of symbiotic relationship known as syntrophy. In this mutualistic relationship, methanogens siphon off and utilize fungal waste products (hydrogen and carbon dioxide), thereby speeding fungal metabolism and enabling faster and more complete deconstruction… [Read More]