Yasuo Yoshikuni

Biologist Staff Scientist

DOE Joint Genome Institute

Science Programs

Secondary Affiliation: Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology

Molecular EcoSystems Biology

Biological Systems and Engineering

BioEngineering & BioMedical Sciences
Biodesign

YYoshikuni@lbl.gov

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An Enzyme Family that Helped Shape Nitrogen Metabolism on Our Planet

December 12, 2024

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen.

Biosciences Researchers Launching Biopreparedness Projects

September 18, 2023

Two scientists in the Area, Greg Hura and Vivek Mutalik, are heading up research projects that are part of the Department of Energy’s Biopreparedness Research Virtual Environment (BRaVE) initiative. Yasuo Yoshikuni, a scientist at the Joint Genome Institute, is part of a third project that is being led by Brookhaven National Laboratory. These projects will leverage bioimaging expertise to develop better therapies and vaccines for viruses, develop a high-throughput platform to rapidly design countermeasures to drug-resistant pathogens, and unlock the molecular basis of plant-pathogen interactions to create resilient bioenergy crops.

The JGI Leverages Soil Virus for Insight into Maintaining Microorganisms

December 6, 2022

Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using 5,000 images of crystalized samples cloned and synthesized by the JGI, scientists have begun the complex process of uncovering the hidden secrets of soil viruses.

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