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April 7, 2015

A science ambassador at the NSBE Convention

Steve Wilson at NSBEAs part of Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos’ Diversity & Inclusion Initiative, our own Steve Wilson served as a Lab science ambassador to the National Society of Black Engineers’ (NSBE) 41st Annual Convention on March 25-29, 2015 in Anaheim, CA. Wilson was part of a delegation including representatives from the Workforce Development & Education and Human Resources… [Read More]

April 1, 2015

Operations Deputy Ray Turner on Why Diversity Matters

“What I’ve found over the last nine years working in a more liberal and diverse environment at the JGI is that there are huge benefits from diversity in the workplace, the main one being that you just simply get better ideas with a more diverse group of people within your department or organization.” Our Operations… [Read More]

March 31, 2015

Potential new bacterial phylum in The Scientist

At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute User Meeting held in Walnut Creek, California, last week, researchers announced the genomic identification of a potential new bacterial phylum, Candidatus Kryptonia, based on their study of samples isolated from four hot springs located in North America and Asia. A talk presented by our postdoc… [Read More]

March 2, 2015

Ultra-small bacteria project in Huffington Post

“These newly described ultra-small bacteria are an example of a subset of the microbial life on earth that we know almost nothing about,” says Jill Banfield, a Senior Faculty Scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor in the departments of Earth and Planetary Science and Environmental Science, Policy and Management…. [Read More]

March 2, 2015

Congressman DeSaulnier Visits JGI

(Left to right): Ray Turner, Jim bristow, Susannah Tringe, Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, and Susie Theroux.On Friday, February 20, first-year Congressman Mark DeSaulnier, whose 11th District spans from Antioch in east Contra Costa County to Richmond in the west, visited the landmark energy and environmental genomics user facility at his District’s geographic center, the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek. The Representative and his staffer Pat Joyce met with… [Read More]

February 24, 2015

March 4: DOE JGI-EMSL Collaborative Science Google+ Hangout

JGI-EMSL G+ Hangout graphicHave questions about or plan to submit a Letter of Intent to the DOE JGI-EMSL Collaborative Science Initiative? Now is your chance to learn more about these national scientific user facilities funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the collaborative science capabilities they offer the global research community. The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and… [Read More]

February 23, 2015

Mycorrhizal fungi project in ScienceNews

“Long before the fungi engaged in trade with their plant hosts, though, their fungal ancestors primarily were decomposers, breaking down wood from dead trees. So how did this mutually beneficial relationship with live plants evolve?” The ScienceNews article ran on February 23, 2015. Learn more about the DOE JGI’s role in understanding the symbiotic relationship… [Read More]

February 9, 2015

Exploring Uncultivable Microbes at AAAS

Susannah TringeSESSION TITLE: Novel Technologies for Exploring the Uncultivated Microbial Majority WHEN: 1:00pm on Friday, February 13, 2015 WHERE: Room LL20C (San Jose Convention Center) Susannah Tringe and Tanja Woyke, the respective heads of our Metagenome and Microbial Programs, have organized a session at this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Meeting, which… [Read More]

January 7, 2015

CAMI Hosts Community Challenge for Assessing Metagenomes

Logo of CAMI (Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation)  Current CAMI Schedule for Participants: March 27, 2015 “Challenge Part I” opens: Read data sets posted for assembly and read based profiling/binning May 8, 2015 Deadline for “Challenge Part I,” Assemblies May 9, 2015 “Challenge Part II” opens: Gold standard assemblies posted for contig-based profiling/binning May 27-29, 2015 1st CAMI Evaluation Meeting. Details: http://cami-challenge.org/evaluation_meeting June 19, 2015 Deadline… [Read More]

January 5, 2015

2014 Food Drive Collection Tops 1,700 lbs

Contra Costa Food Bank barrels picked up at the JGI on the last day of the 2014 Holiday Food DriveThe annual JGI Holiday Food Drive of 2014 brought nearly a ton of food to the the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. Over half of the total came from the family of software developer Bobby Otillar, who pledged to match the amount of food donated by fellow JGIers pound-for-pound for the third year in a row. This… [Read More]
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