This project will identify and characterize the dominant uncultivated microorganisms that mediate major transformations in the soil carbon cycle. The genetic capacity of microbial communities can be studied through genomic approaches but it remains difficult to make direct links between the genetic capacity of microorganisms and their function in the soil carbon cycle. Proposer: Dan…
River Microbes and the Carbon Cycle
River microbes play a key role in transforming and metabolizing dissolved organic matter (DOM) and thus have an important impact on global carbon cycles. However, scientists’ understanding of the relationship between the chemical composition of DOM and the genomic functional activity of microbial communities remains limited. Here, researchers aim to produce an extensive metagenomic and…
Meet a JGI Postdoc: Estelle Schaefer
From September 18-22, 2017, we introduce you to 5 postdocs at the JGI in honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, which recognizes the contributions of these early career researchers. Through a series of hard-hitting questions, we find out what drives each one. What do you work on? Plant and microbe interactions. I’m setting up…
Meet a JGI Postdoc: Adam Session
From September 18-22, 2017, we introduce you to 5 postdocs at the JGI in honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, which recognizes the contributions of these early career researchers. Through a series of hard-hitting questions, we find out what drives each one. What do you work on? I work in the Eukaryote Super Program…
Meet a JGI Postdoc: Kateryna Zhalnina
From September 18-22, 2017, we introduce you to 5 postdocs at the JGI in honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, which recognizes the contributions of these early career researchers. Through a series of hard-hitting questions, we find out what drives each one. What do you work on? I study how plants use their exudation…
Meet a JGI Postdoc: Hiroshi Otani
From September 18-22, 2017, we introduce you to 5 postdocs at the JGI in honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, which recognizes the contributions of these early career researchers. Through a series of hard-hitting questions, we find out what drives each one. What do you work on? The products of microbial metabolism have biotechnological…
Meet a JGI Postdoc: Jess Jarett
From September 18-22, 2017, we introduce you to 5 postdocs at the JGI in honor of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, which recognizes the contributions of these early career researchers. Through a series of hard-hitting questions, we find out what drives each one. What do you work on? I work on the Microbial Dark Matter…
National Microbiome Data Collaborative Now on Trellis
“At the dawn of the third decade of microbial genomics, and well into the information age, the establishment of a national microbiome data center can pave the way to understanding the Earth’s microbiome.” –Nikos Kyrpides Following the June 2017 ASM Microbe Town Hall on “Envisioning a National Microbiome Data Collaborative,” everyone interested is encouraged to…
Nikos Kyrpides Named 2018 ASM USFCC/J. Roger Porter Awardee
Congratulations to Nikos Kyrpides, JGI’s Prokaryote Super Program head, who was recently selected as the 2018 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award recipient by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). This award recognizes outstanding efforts by a scientist who has demonstrated the importance of microbial biodiversity through sustained curatorial or stewardship activities for a major resource by…
A Social Science Experience
2017 Summer Interns Share Highlights of their time at JGI In 2017, JGI hosted 15 summer interns ranging from high schoolers through graduate school. Many of the students came to the JGI through ongoing partnerships dedicated toward training the next generation of scientific talent. Two of the high school students are among the Biotech Partners…