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We are a User Facility providing access to integrative genome science capabilities. Located @BerkeleyLab. Work with us: https://nitter.cf/t.co/JliQ4XxSzV

 Berkeley, CA
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Joined February 2009
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📣 Nov. 4 is the LAST DAY to register for our 5th Viral EcoGenomics & Applications Symposium in Berkeley, CA. See below for keynote speakers; More information at jointgeno.me/VEGA
VEGA Viral EcoGenomics & Applications symposium graphic with a globe logo, event subtitle, and portraits of speakers Karen Maxwell, Grieg Steward, and Joshua Weitz with their university affiliations.

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From our FY26 joint CMM call: Allison Werner is identifying proteins that selectively bind rare-earth elements and studying how they work, paving the way for cost-effective rare-earth refining from domestic feedstocks. Full Portfolio: jointgeno.me/CMMFY26 @NatLabRockies
Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Allison Werner National Laboratory of the Rockies Microbial REE Atlas: Discovery, Validation, and Functional Elucidation of Rare-Earth Element (REE) Binding Proteins Towards Critical Mineral Recovery

ALT Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Allison Werner National Laboratory of the Rockies Microbial REE Atlas: Discovery, Validation, and Functional Elucidation of Rare-Earth Element (REE) Binding Proteins Towards Critical Mineral Recovery

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From our FY26 joint CMM call: Meng Wang is turning ferritin—natural nanoscale protein cages—into a programmable tool to capture metals from waste streams, enabling efficient recovery and stronger domestic energy supply chains. Full Portfolio: jointgeno.me/CMMFY26 @UHouston
Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Meng Wang University of Houston Developing a Cell-Based Fitness Assay for High-Throughput Assessment of Ferritin Metal-Selectivity and Engineering

ALT Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Meng Wang University of Houston Developing a Cell-Based Fitness Assay for High-Throughput Assessment of Ferritin Metal-Selectivity and Engineering

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In the next several years, the JGIi will develop exciting new projects, opening new ways our users can drive innovation for biomanufacturing and biotechnology. Learn more: jointgeno.me/stratplanreleas…
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From our FY26 joint CMM call: Setsuko Wakao is screening algae that naturally hyperaccumulate critical minerals — aiming to uncover the genetic basis of metal response and building on algae-based metal bioremediation research. Full Portfolio: jointgeno.me/CMMFY26 @berkeleylab
Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Setsuko Wakao Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Toward Mechanistic Understanding of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals Absorption: Exploring the Genetic Basis of Algal Response to Critical Minerals

ALT Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Setsuko Wakao Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Toward Mechanistic Understanding of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals Absorption: Exploring the Genetic Basis of Algal Response to Critical Minerals

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From our FY26 Functional Genomics call: After severe wildfire, fungi may help ponderosa pine seedlings recover by mobilizing nutrients and critical minerals. Claire Willing will study how Rhizopogon olivaceotinctus “switches on” after heat. More: jointgeno.me/FGFY26
Community Science Program (FY26) Congratulations to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients! JGI Claire Willing University of Washington Fire-adapted ectomycorrhizal fungi: Genomic mechanisms of heat germination and nutrient mobilization in Rhizopogon olivaceotinctus

ALT Community Science Program (FY26) Congratulations to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients! JGI Claire Willing University of Washington Fire-adapted ectomycorrhizal fungi: Genomic mechanisms of heat germination and nutrient mobilization in Rhizopogon olivaceotinctus

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By leveraging new tools and large-scale data mining, JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven studies of energy metabolism. More: jgi.doe.gov/user-science/sci…
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DYK microbes can help extract #CriticalMinerals? Engineered yeast from the @JGI and the Molecular Foundry grab & store elements like mini collection units. We’re studying how the organisms could pull valuable but dilute elements from mining wastewater. #LBNLCriticalMinerals bit.ly/4ytNkpe
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From our FY26 joint CMM call: @VatamaniukLab is developing plant-based methods to recover copper from low-quality soils and waste streams. Learning how plants absorb, transport and store copper lays the groundwork for “phytomining.” Full Portfolio: jointgeno.me/CMMFY26
Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Olena Vatamaniuk Cornell University Nanoscale Control of Copper Uptake, Transport, and Sequestration in Plants for Phytomining Applications

ALT Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Olena Vatamaniuk Cornell University Nanoscale Control of Copper Uptake, Transport, and Sequestration in Plants for Phytomining Applications

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New and evolving user programs will combine genomics with AI, automated experimentation and complementary capabilities across DOE user facilities — giving researchers integrated approaches hard to assemble in a single lab. More in our new strategic plan: jointgeno.me/stratplanreleas…
JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Strategic Plan: AI-Driven Genomics to Accelerate Biological Discovery Our goal is to make it easier for users to move from experiments to scientific discovery. By bringing together complementary technologies, expertise and facilities across DOE, we can enable new types of science and help researchers address increasingly complex questions that are central to the DOE mission. Tanja Woyke Deputy for User Programs SCAN to read the JGI’s 2026 Strategic Plan BERKELEY LAB

ALT JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Strategic Plan: AI-Driven Genomics to Accelerate Biological Discovery Our goal is to make it easier for users to move from experiments to scientific discovery. By bringing together complementary technologies, expertise and facilities across DOE, we can enable new types of science and help researchers address increasingly complex questions that are central to the DOE mission. Tanja Woyke Deputy for User Programs SCAN to read the JGI’s 2026 Strategic Plan BERKELEY LAB

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From our FY26 Functional Genomics call: Duckweed is a bioenergy feedstock candidate, but the microbes shaping its growth remain unclear. Jiaqi Tan will pair plant and microbial gene activity to reveal what drives productivity. More: jointgeno.me/FGFY26 @xjaliu @lsuscience
Community Science Program (FY26) Congratulations to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients! JGI Jiaqi Tan Louisiana State University Functional transcriptomics of plant-microbe interactions

ALT Community Science Program (FY26) Congratulations to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients! JGI Jiaqi Tan Louisiana State University Functional transcriptomics of plant-microbe interactions

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From our FY26 joint CMM call: Ning Sun wants to know how bacteria capture and separate rare earth elements. The team especially wants to learn how these microscopic systems distinguish "light" from "heavy" rare earth elements. Full Portfolio: jointgeno.me/CMMFY26 @berkeleylab
Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Ning Sun Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mapping A Microbial System for Heavy Rare Earth Elements Recovery

ALT Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Ning Sun Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mapping A Microbial System for Heavy Rare Earth Elements Recovery

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Efforts outlined in the JGI's new strategic plan directly align with the Genesis Mission — a DOE initiative to link AI, computing, automated experiments and national research facilities like the JGI into one connected system for discovery. Full release: jointgeno.me/stratplanreleas…
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From our FY26 Functional Genomics call: Gray mold fungus Botrytis cinerea threatens bioenergy crops. Ritu Singh will map the genetic switches driving infection, filling a major gap in plant pathogen research. More: jointgeno.me/FGFY26 @RituSingh280 @UCDavisPlants @ucdavis
Community Science Program (FY26) Congratulations to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients! JGI Ritu Singh University of California, Davis Decoding the regulatory logic of host generalism: A DAP-seq cis­trome map of transcriptional plasticity regulators in Botrytis cinerea

ALT Community Science Program (FY26) Congratulations to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients! JGI Ritu Singh University of California, Davis Decoding the regulatory logic of host generalism: A DAP-seq cis­trome map of transcriptional plasticity regulators in Botrytis cinerea

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An estimated 97% of microbial chemical classes are still undiscovered. With @jgi we're working to map the genes that drive this chemistry across 80 previously unexplored species from our collection, generating a massive ground truth dataset to fuel future drug discovery. businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Joint us! This year's meeting will feature keynotes from computational biologist Curtis Huttenhower @HarvardChanSPH and plant biologist C.J. Tsai @universityofga More info: jointgeno.me/JGI2027 Sign up for our newsletter for updates: jointgeno.me/newsletter
GI Annual Meeting Advancing Biotechnology by AI-Driven Genomics March 16–18, 2027 Oakland Convention Center, Oakland, California

ALT GI Annual Meeting Advancing Biotechnology by AI-Driven Genomics March 16–18, 2027 Oakland Convention Center, Oakland, California

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From our FY26 joint CMM call: Viktoria Steck is investigating a new link between manganese and phosphorus metabolism in ocean microbes, and how this relationship controls the resource distributions of this critical mineral. Full Portfolio: jointgeno.me/CMMFY26
Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Viktoria Steck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research New Biological Controls on the Critical Mineral Manganese Through Marine Microbial Phosphorus Metabolism

ALT Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE Viktoria Steck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research New Biological Controls on the Critical Mineral Manganese Through Marine Microbial Phosphorus Metabolism

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From our FY26 Functional Genomics call: Extreme-environment archaea have unique metabolic abilities, but their gene-control networks are unclear. Amy K. Schmid will use DAP-seq to map transcription factor–DNA interactions. More: jointgeno.me/FGFY26
Community Science Program (FY26) Congratulations to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients! JGI Amy K. Schmid Duke University Massively parallel characterization of archaeal gene networks to transform the bioeconomy

ALT Community Science Program (FY26) Congratulations to our CSP Functional Genomics Call recipients! JGI Amy K. Schmid Duke University Massively parallel characterization of archaeal gene networks to transform the bioeconomy

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Recently published in @ScienceMagazine: With high-quality genomes, researchers shed light on pathways to starch and lignin — important starting materials for a wide variety of bioproducts. Learn more: jgi.doe.gov/user-science/sci… @BerkeleyLab
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From our FY26 joint CMM call: John Sedbrook is studying how Brassicaceae plants take up and accumulate metals, and aims to apply that knowledge to optimize the ability of these species to extract nickel from nickel-rich soils. Full Portfolio: jointgeno.me/CMMFY26
Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE John Sedbrook Illinois State University Accelerating Discovery of Mechanisms Underlying Nickel Biorecovery Across Brassicaceae Species

ALT Critical Minerals & Materials (FY26) Congratulations to our 2026 Critical Minerals & Materials call recipients! MOLECULAR FOUNDRY JGI JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE John Sedbrook Illinois State University Accelerating Discovery of Mechanisms Underlying Nickel Biorecovery Across Brassicaceae Species

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