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… addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy … those associated with microeukaryotes. The program also studies giant viruses. Key research areas include … for uncultivated microorganisms, by sequencing large populations of bacteria and archaea in their natural …

… genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses … activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and their interactions, the Program aims to … have enabled reconstruction of complete or near-complete population genomes directly from the environment. These …

… genomic data and serving them to users via the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. Research Team    … The Integrated Microbial Genomes group is focused on:  Developing … Development and maintenance of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system … As part of …

… exploration of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With … the program supports foundational research related to soil nutrient cycling and health, terrestrial biogeochemical … to analyze metabolites in environmental organisms, communities, and samples including state-of-the-art …

… by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … development of complex biomolecules — which can include antimicrobial and anti-pest compounds.  The program is working … focusing on how environmental stress and microbial communities affect plant growth and productivity. These …

… expertise to support the global research community in studies of complex biological and environmental systems. We … went on to advance basic science by sequencing scores of microbial species as well as several model organisms and … to contaminants such as heavy metals or radionuclides in soils, freshwater, coastal sediments (coastal here defined  …

… 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 Environmental …

… program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI though … up-to-speed with some of the latest developments in microbial genomics, metagenomics, and computational biology, …

… parameters driving virus:host dynamics in environmental microbial communities. This involves both experimental and … Microbiology.   19 , 407 Berg, M. et al. (2021) Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in …

Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our … To provide additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to …

IMG kind of hooks into IMG’s data. IMG being Integrated Microbial Genomics at JGI, a large data set of bacterial … the action of the microbiome because if you sterilize the soil, the protective effect is gone. You can transplant the … just been looking at like 16S taxonomic profiles of these communities looking at who is in there, but never like what …