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… Dr. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His … of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … al. 2022. Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics. Nature Reviews Microbiology …

… Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological and … and viruses in the environment. Eloe-Fadrosh and Roux are part of the first cohort to receive Early Career Development …

… a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, which particularly helps plants thrive in warm, arid environments. … of plants have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, … Biotechnology and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… in, reported on over the last year: Jeremy Schmutz was part of a long-term multi-institutional research team that combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass … colleagues used an extensive JGI database to investigate viruses detected in the samples. Simon Roux co-organized the …

… of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a … For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms oil-producing … precise gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an … Overall, this work supports the mission of the Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental …