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The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge sequencing, … addressing key environmental challenges, such as improving soil health, carbon sequestration and bioeconomy … provides high-quality, large-scale genomic data to advance microbial research that drives sustainable solutions in …

… exploration of energy and nutrient exchange, as well as microbial and plant responses to environmental changes. With advanced mass … the program supports foundational research related to soil nutrient cycling and health, terrestrial biogeochemical …

… 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 …

… program for faculty to “claim” the JGI’s unpublished microbial genomes, with the expectation that faculty will … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, builds upon thousands of microbial genomes that have been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, …

… by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying soils, interacting with other organisms, and adapting to … of how plants have naturally adapted to varied climate and soil conditions around the globe to identify genes to … development of complex biomolecules — which can include antimicrobial and anti-pest compounds.  The program is working …

… including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial pathogens, and associated viruses that all … how plants self-organize, influence, and are influenced by microbial partners. We use a variety of genomics-powered … … Single-cell characterization of plant/environmental responses … Selected Publications … Research Team Alumni … …

A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 184(13):3376-3393 Almeida A, et … et al. (2016) Microbiome Data Science: Understanding Our Microbial Planet. Trends Microbiol. 24(6):425-7. … uncovers gaps in amplicon-based detection of microbial diversity.  Nature Microbiol .  15032 Eloe-Fadrosh …

… for antibiotics and the microbes that make them is in the soil. There’s … uh… there’s an issue there though, in that … few of the antibiotics that people were looking for in the soil kept getting found over and over again. So we call this … Canada. I just got back from a conference in Canada on antimicrobial resistance sponsored by the Garner foundation. And …

… genetic elements. Beyond exploring and characterizing microbial diversity, work in the Metagenome Program uses several experimental approaches to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and their interactions, the Program …

… … Adaptive strategies in a cosmopolitan and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during simulated range shifts of …

… 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 …

… and culture-disconnected. Like we’ll take some soil samples and sequence all the bugs out of that or … to bacteria. If you go into another country and take soil and discover a new important drug from the microbes in … that we found, indeed, that both formulations had some antimicrobial properties. But the one that was used in …