Tanja Woyke, head of our Microbial Program, was one of the honorees at Berkeley Lab’s 2015 Women @ The Lab, held November 18, 2015. She was among 14 women selected from labwide nominations in the following categories: Postdoctoral Fellow Early/Mid-Career Scientist or Engineer Senior Scientists or Engineer Operations Professional Administrative Professional Technician Click here to read about Dr. Woyke… [Read More]

In observance of Veterans Day 2015, Erika Lindquist, our Sequencing QA/QC Group Lead who served in Iraq as a member of the California Army National Guard, appeared in a video produced by Berkeley Lab. She spoke about her deployment to Iraq, and most importantly, the lessons she has applied to life after military service. Watch Erika’s video at… [Read More]

In the midst of a historic drought, the U.S. Department of Energy is funding a $12.3 million project in California to examine how environmental factors influence heritable changes in gene expression in one particular crop. The Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum, or EPICON, focuses on understanding how sorghum, a grass related to corn,… [Read More]

To encourage employee interactions among DOE JGI staff–who reside in three different buildings— the Diversity & Inclusion Working Group launched the first monthly Coffee Social in August, 2015. The events are organized by the Working Group, but different groups within the DOE JGI take on the hosting duties at each gathering over the course of the year. These… [Read More]

In 2015, the JGI hosted 10 interns who spent the summer crunching genomic data at a computer, working at the lab bench, and even spending time out in the field. [Read More]

Nikos Kyrpides received the Van Niel International Prize in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2012-2014. His efforts to systematically describe and classify microbes in action can be seen in the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system. [Read More]