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May 26, 2017

Extreme Science: Sequencing in Space

Left to Right: CASIS associate program scientist Liz Warren, DOE JGI User Programs Deputy Susannah Tringe, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, DOE JGI Director Nigel Mouncey, DOE JGI Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel, and DOE JGI Genomic Technologies Deputy Len PennacchioOn May 11, 2017, NASA astronaut and microbiologist Kate Rubins, the first woman to sequence DNA in space, gave a talk about “Science in Extreme Environments” at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Among the anecdotes she shared about living and working in space for nearly 4 months was one on how mundane bench tasks… [Read More]

May 1, 2017

May 11: Doing Science in Space

Kate Rubins NASA astronautWith the topic “Doing Science in Space: At 17,500 miles per hour and 250 miles up,” NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins will be speaking at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Thursday, May 11, 2017. A livestream of the talk will be available for Berkeley Lab staff here. This visit is co-hosted by the Molecular Foundry and the… [Read More]

February 2, 2017

Taking the First Steps to Colocating Biosciences at the Berkeley Lab

JGI Director Emeritus Eddy Rubin (left) in conversation with Berkeley Lab COO Glenn Kubiak (right) just before the IGB program in the Bldg 50 Auditorium.On January 31 at Berkeley Lab, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) that will be the home of DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and DOE Systems Knowledgebase (KBase) in 2019. Flanked by dignitaries representing the Berkeley Lab, the Department of Energy Office of Science, and the University of California, incoming… [Read More]

January 5, 2017

DOE JGI Research Featured in NOVA PBS story

Tree of Life by Zosia Rostomian for Banfield lab Nat Microbiol paper“Using the single-celled sequencing techniques that she had perfected at the Joint Genome Institute, Woyke and her colleagues ended up with exactly 201 genomes from these candidate phyla, representing 29 branches on the tree of life that scientists knew nothing about. ‘For many phyla, this was the first genomic data anyone had seen,’ she says.”… [Read More]

January 3, 2017

Eelgrass Genome Paper Makes 2016 Nature Editors’ Choice List

Zostera marina 021816 Nature cover“Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is an unlikely model for plant evolution, but is a useful one because it has undergone major habitat shifts: it evolved from marine algae into a terrestrial flowering plant, then moved back to the sea again.” Among the 10 papers that were included the Editors’ Choice list of the Nature journal is the… [Read More]

December 12, 2016

A JGI/EMSL Project in Discover’s 2016 Science Top 100 List

This is not one of the wells used in the study, but it shows what a site looks like during the drilling process. (Image courtesy of the MSEEL (Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory www.mseel.org), where the Wrighton Lab is also conducting research.)“Microbiologists often seek life in the planet’s extremes — from below ice sheets to within geysers. But Appalachian Basin scientists found hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, also provides its own inhabited extremes in their backyard.” In Discover magazine’s list of top 100 science stories of 2016 is a study from The Ohio State University researchers that led… [Read More]

December 9, 2016

Six from DOE JGI on 2016 Highly Cited Researchers List

Highly Cited 2016Six of the DOE JGI’s researchers are among the most highly cited in the world. That’s according to the annual list compiled by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters. (Click here to see the full list.) The 2016 list focused on Highly Cited Papers (defined in the Methodology section as… [Read More]

November 28, 2016

JGI’s Zhong Wang Advised Winning SC16 Student Cluster Team

Zhong Wang and Hong An at SC16At the recently concluded supercomputing conference (SC16), students from the University of Science and Technology of China, who went by “Team SwanGeese,” won the Student Cluster Competition. (Click here to read the SC16 story about the winners.) One of the team’s advisers was JGI’s Zhong Wang, head of the Genome Analysis group. Zhong was tapped to participate by… [Read More]

October 31, 2016

Biotech Partners Summer Intern Co-Authors NAR Paper

TBK Reddy and his summer intern Kaushal SharmaKaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint Genome Institute this summer through the Biotech Partners program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates and feature enhancements to the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) administered… [Read More]

October 11, 2016

October 12: Igor Grigoriev on Plos #SciWed redditAMA

Igor Grigoriev is part of the October 12, 2016 Plos redditscience AMAOn Wednesday, October 12 at 10am Pacific time, PLOS is hosting a #SciWed redditAMA related to a recent Plos Genetics paper on a fungus that severely impacts banana crop yields. Igor Grigoriev, DOE JGI’s Fungal Genomics head, is participating, along with DOE JGI collaborators Steve Goodwin at USDA-ARS and Gert Kema at Wageningen University. Check out… [Read More]
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