The JBEI team

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is renowned for fundamental biology and biophysical innovation and is one of the five national labs managing the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a high-throughput production facility for gene sequencing. LBNL offers a large concentration of expertise for bioinformatics, data management, and biological modeling, in addition to being a world leader in advanced imaging, nanoscale biology, applied mathematics, and biochemical design.

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) will apply its systems engineering and integration function—its primary role with the national laboratory system—to this facility. Sandia further offers manufacturing experience in technologies, with annual manufacturing products totaling $300M/year, as well as a diverse mixture of relevant technical specialties, including microfluidics, computation and informatics, robotics, and materials development.

University of California, Berkeley (UCB) is one of the world's premier research universities. It is committed to maintaining a research environment conducive to creating and freely disseminating the very best scholarly contributions and scientific discoveries. Berkeley is consistently rated among the top institutions in the world for the quality and breadth of its research enterprise, for the scholarly distinction of its faculty, for the excellence of its Ph.D. programs, and for the amount of funding received for support of its research programs.

University of California, Davis (UCD) is one of the nation's top public research universities and is part of the world's pre-eminent public university system. The campus is set in the heart of the California's agriculturally rich Central Valley, close to the state capital and San Francisco Bay Area. UCD's special expertise in plant and environmental sciences will help JBEI translate advances in genomics, genetics, plant physiology, evolutionary biology and environmental science into improved crop performance and production, agricultural sustainability and ecosystem management.

The Carnegie Institution for Science was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 as an organization for scientific discovery. Today, the Carnegie Institution continues as a private, nonprofit organization engaged in basic research and advanced education in biology, astronomy, and the earth sciences.  The Department of Plant Biology in Stanford, California, uses molecular genetics and related methods to study photosynthesis and the growth and developmental processes that enable plants to survive disease and environmental stress. The department is also a world leader in bioinformatics. It developed and now manages an online-integrated database that supplies all aspects of biological information on the most widely used model plant, Arabidopsis.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is also one of the five labs that manage the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and has a long history in the field of genomics. LLNL also has strong activities in bioinformatics, experimental protein production (both cell based and cell free), and advanced measurement technologies.