Ray Turner Completes Last Tour of Lab Duty at JGI
For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. His vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close. [Read More]
JGI Earth Month: The Unusual Metabolism That Helps Plants Withstand Drought
For JGI Earth Month, Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa shares how crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM, helps plants take the heat. [Read More]
JGI Earth Month: Wetlands Work in #TenHundredWords
For JGI Earth Month, graduate student Mo Kaze took on the challenge of explaining her research using the ten hundred most commonly used words in the English language. Her work focuses anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome composition and metabolism. The #TenHundredWords Challenge was inspired by Randall Munroe’s xkcd comic “Up Goer Five” and his subsequent book Thing Explainer. [Read More]
JGI Earth Month: Lessons in Nature’s Resilience
As part of JGI Earth Month, revisiting lessons in Nature’s resilience resulting from studies by Berkeley Lab researchers, including JGI scientists, to understand how the microbial communities in the waters responded to the influx of oil. [Read More]
JGI Earth Month: Healthy Streams, Nutritious Microbes?
As part of JGI Earth Month, hear from Ed Hall, an ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He’s investigating how microbes in the Arkansas River might be influencing the river’s health. [Read More]
JGI Earth Month: Kjiersten Fagnan Reflects on Shelter-in-Place Effects
In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and environmental impacts of the shelter-in-place order as part of JGI Earth Month. [Read More]
Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
JGI’s Tanja Woyke has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, joining 67 other new Fellows in the Class of 2020. Fellows are selected based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. [Read More]
JGI Scientists Pen Genome Watch Articles
JGI researchers are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in Nature Reviews Microbiology. In 2018. Tanja Woyke, who leads the Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea Du Toit, senior editor for Nature Reviews Microbiology, with an unusual opportunity: would JGI researchers consider regularly writing for the magazine’s column Genome Watch? [Read More]
Expanding Virophage Diversity
Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA packaging, and PRO, a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in Microbiome, researchers… [Read More]
Honey Bee Gut Microbiota Divvy Up Dinner
Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily… [Read More]
