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… With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, … communities affect plant growth and productivity. These insights have the potential to inform strategies that …

… The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, … cycling and inter-organismal interactions. These insights are crucial for addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy applications. The …

… Plants are complex organisms that harbor a fantastic … including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all … contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by …

… works to uncover the roles of small molecules in biological systems, linking them with genomic data to enhance our … genome science, organisms, and ecosystems at the molecular level. Integrating genomics with metabolomics fuels the … microbes, and understanding microbiome interactions. The  insights derived are crucial for advancing the bioeconomy, …

… genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses … approaches to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and their … that govern ecosystem processes. This research provides insights into microbial diversity and metabolic potential, …

… ecological and evolutionary parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and … take-over by viruses, and attempts to evaluate ecosystem-level impacts of viral infections. The Viral Genomics Group …

… of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct metabolic properties … within those genomes. Our aim is to more fully capture microbial and viral diversity, leading to a better understanding of microbial communities and ecosystem function.  The …

… between viruses and cellular life, providing unique insights into viral evolution and complexity, and encode for … Cataloging Earth's microbial lineages through advanced genomic techniques and … reveal new lineages and functional capabilities in the microbial world. …

… natural product – they also often surprise us by giving us insights, inspires us to discover the fundamentals and then … to have an index. You have to have the computer-searching systems. So one of the enabling technologies we wanted to do … product chemistry? BEN:  Yeah. So, I was trained as a plant natural product chemist. When I first started in …

… program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will … by the Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI though … and skills necessary to extract meaningful biological insights from sequence data, employing IMG data and tools …

… The Plant Program Advisory Committee is chartered to offer … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the plant program. The committee serves as the program's key …