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“Bay Area national labs get new Recovery Act funding”

A $327 million initiative to bolster research and infrastructure programs at national laboratories is funneling more than $61 million to Bay Area facilities, the Department of Energy announced on Tuesday. Under the initiative, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will get $37.8 million in federal Recovery Act funding, with $11 million designated for fusion energy research, $13.1 million… [Read More]

“Bay Area labs rake in stimulus”

California laboratories cleaned up in the Department of Energy’s latest stimulus announcement…. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will receive $40.3 million to fund research in biofuels, nuclear fusion and the electrical grid. At Lawrence Berkeley Lab, the $40.3 million will be divvied among the Joint Genome Institute, the accelerator and fusion research divisions, the Advanced Light… [Read More]

“Hiram College Stays on the Forefront of Genomics Education”

Understanding what a DNA sequence can tell you is not only crucial to modern medicine, but also to efforts in basic science, agriculture, bioenergy and industrial biotechnology. Providing students with the theoretical background is a first step, but nothing beats the opportunity to do it for real. Cheryl Kerfeld, Head of the Education Program for… [Read More]

JGI’s Cheryl Kerfeld teams with Hiram College for annotation education

Cheryl Kerfeld, a member of the Center’s Advisory Council and Head of the Education Program for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California, and her colleagues have successfully launched a national program to involve undergraduates in annotating hundreds of new bacterial genomes. Hiram has benefited greatly from our collaborations with… [Read More]

Re UQ/JGI’s sea sponge genome sequencing collaboration

[N]one of the projects investigating those potential benefits would be possible without the entire sea sponge genome sequence, which Professor Degnan’s lab successfully mapped and will be publishing this year. “We and our colleagues at the Joint Genome Institute (US Department of Energy) are the ones who drove this project which really puts us in… [Read More]

JGI’s Jonathan Eisen in iSGTW

In metagenomics, scientists grind up samples containing many different organisms and extract all the DNA they can, not knowing which pieces of DNA came from which organisms. A one-gram soil sample can contain up to several million species of microbes all mixed together. The scientists sequence small, random fragments of the DNA to identify species… [Read More]

JGI Summer 2009 Primer now available for download

Featuring, in no particular order: Micromonas algae and the global carbon cycle the brown-rot fungus Postia placenta JGI researchers call for standards in genome sequencing and annotation at a conference in Santa Fe, NM studying the Great Salt Lake in Utah on JGI User Meeting keynotes by Chris Somerville, Craig Venter and George Church, plus… [Read More]

JGI/AgResearch collaboration on TVNZ

New Zealand scientists trying to find a cost-effective way of reducing livestock emissions of major greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide and methane, are to be given a helping hand by American researchers. The US Department of Energy’s joint genome institute (JGI) is helping researchers have the DNA of microbes in the forestomach (rumen) of livestock animals… [Read More]

Texan termite hindgut project part of JGI’s CSP 2010

Dr. Jorge Rodrigues, a University of Texas at Arlington microbiologist, has been selected for a highly competitive genome sequencing project by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute. Rodrigues will sequence the genome of a microorganism isolated from a termite’s hindgut as part of an effort to identify solutions to climate change. The Joint… [Read More]