• Winter 2012 edition of JGI newsletter The Primer now available
• 2012 Genomic Science Meeting will be held February 26-29, 2012 , at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel. Attendance by invitation only. Information and Registration
• Registration is now live for the 2012 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Genomics of Energy & Environmental Meeting 7, March 20-22, 2012, Walnut Creek, California. Information and Registration
• JGI offers several five-day workshops on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics during 2012. Information and Registration
• DOE and USDA Fund Ten New Projects for Biomass Genomics Research. See press release.
• National Laboratories and Universities Team up to Build a Community Systems Biology Knowledgebase. DOE announced the selection of a collaboration of top scientists from across the Nation to lead development of a computer-based Systems Biology Knowledgebase.
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• Biosystems Design: DRAFT Report from the July 2011 Workshop [1/12]
• Switchgrass Research Group: Progress Report [1/12]
• DOE Genomic Science Program Overview Handout [5/11]
• Genomics for Energy and Environmental Science Placemat [1/11]
• Grand Challenges for Biological and Environmental Research: A Long-Term Vision Report [12/10]
• DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase Implementation Plan [9/10]
• Bioenergy Research Centers Overview [7/10]
• New Frontiers in Characterizing Biological Systems Report [10/09]
• Sustainability of Biofuels: DOE-USDA Report [4/09]
• Systems Biology Knowledgebase Workshop Report [3/09]
• Carbon Cycling and Biosequestration [12/08]
• Information & Data Sharing Policy [4/08]
• Biomass to Biofuels Plan [7/06]
• Roadmap [10/05]
• More Publications »

• Funding Call: Genomic Science: Biosystems Design to Enable Next-Generation Biofuels [01/12]
• Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy. DOE and USDA announce funding call [11/10]
• DOE Office of Science Grants and Contracts
• Funding Announcements Archive »

Genomic Science-Related BER Research Highlights

• Protein Complex Within Plant Cell Wall Associated with Secondary Cell-Wall Synthesis [Nov 30, 2011]
  The plant cell wall polysaccharide pectin is often associated with the tissue softening that occu [more...]
• Designing Low Lignin, High Biomass Yielding Plants [Nov 28, 2011]
  The major barrier to the efficient conversion of biomass from plant feedstocks to biofuels is bre [more...]
• Microbial Conversion of Switchgrass to Multiple Drop-In Biofuels [Nov 28, 2011]
  The low efficiency and high cost of enzymes used to break down plant material into sugars remains [more...]
• How do Microbes Adapt to Diverse Environments? [Nov 22, 2011]
  Earth's microbes live in staggeringly diverse environments, colonizing habitats with extremes of [more...]
• Permafrost Microbes Could Make Impacts of Arctic Warming Worse [Nov 06, 2011]
  In Earth’s Arctic regions, frozen soils (permafrost) sequester an estimated 1.6 trillion metric t [more...]
• More BER Research Highlights »