BER Personnel Changes

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BER Personnel Changes

• NEW HIRES
• Bob Vallario- Integrated Assessment Program
  Manager
• Elizabeth White- Human Subjects Protection
  Officer
• PENDING
• Associate Director-BER
• Division Director- Environmental Remediation
• Computational Biologist-Life Sciences
• Microbiologist/Geneticist- Climate Change

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BER Funding Profile(dollars in millions)
FY 2006 FY 2007 FY
2008 Appropriation
Appropriation Presidents
Request Biological Environmental
Research Life Sciences 197.7
233.6 282.3 Climate Change Research 136.6
134.4 138.1 Environmental Remediation
91.2 93.8 97.4 Medical
Applications Measurement Science 13.5
21.7
14.0 Subtotal, BER 439.0
483.5 531.9 Congressional Direction
125.1 0.0
0.0 Total, BER 564.1
483.5 531.9

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BER Highlights

• New Laboratory Funding Plan
• Climate Change Research
• -Committee of Visitors Review, 5/25-27
• -Division Strategic Plan

• Environmental Remediation
• -Awards Lawrence, RD 100

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BER Highlights

• Life and Medical Sciences
• -GTL Bioenergy Centers Selection
• -NAS Report on State of the Science in Nuclear
  Medicine, July 2007
• -JGI Update

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JGIs Contribution to WW Sequencing
6
JGI User Community Growth
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Sequencing Production at the DOE Joint Genome
Institute (2007)
3.6
1.00
2.0
0.57
Sequence production (Billions of bases/month)
0.46
Cost Cents per base
0.50
1.0
0.35
0.19
0.10
0.09
0
0
2003
2005
2007
1995
1997
1999
2001
1989
1991
1993
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DOE Bioenergy-Relevant Plants Feedstocks
Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood)
Switchgrass
Soybean
Brachypodium distachyon
Sorghum
Zea Mays (Corn)
Cassava (Manihot esculenta)
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DOE Bioenergy Relevant Microbes (source of
enzymes)
Thermobifida fusca YX
Clostridium thermocellum
Moorella thermoacetica ATCC39073
Cytophaga hutchinsonii ATCC33406
Frankia Cc13
Nostoc punctiforme
Saccharophagus degradans 2-40 (formerly
Microbulbifer degradans)
Rhodopseudomonas palustri
Pichia stipitis
Acidothermus cellulolyticus ATCC 43068
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Next Generation Sequencing Technologies
(Sequencing by Synthesis)
Solexa 200-1,000 MB/run
454 Life Sciences 30-40 MB/run