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… research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to … and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a … Futures … Metagenome Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

… have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … green sharpshooter. In 2012, single cells isolated from the microbes found in the oil plume from Deepwater Horizon oil … at the bottom.  Perhaps most notably, JGI’s Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her colleagues harnessed the JGI’s …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable … evolved these really tough cell wall materials that keep microbes — and the enzymes that would be produced by … they all process loads of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able …

… the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. … LDRD-funded project, Dr. Schulz established a single-cell-based discovery pipeline and enrichment metagenomics for … academic achievements (2008) … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

There’s a party in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their … Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

With collaborative user projects, the JGI’s Plant Program delves into the natural world’s potential to address … resilience. The program’s discoveries support a plant based bioeconomy where plants are a major source of chemical … the ability to discover syntenic orthologs, generate publication quality graphics and explore pangenome views of …

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between … on the rhizosphere and interactions between the trees, microbes and soil chemistry offers insights into how these … ) is supported by the Genomic Science Program in the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, …

… research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the … on thiolases, a superfamily of enzymes found only in microbes, which make carbon-carbon bonds. This ability is …

To set up flexible, repeatable experiments on plants and microbes, Trent Northen’s group at Berkeley Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the world … work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community …

University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how … ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The …

… lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the …

The JGI’s DNA Synthesis Program supports a wide range of projects, from single-gene … biochemicals and other bioenergy solutions.  The program has been a pioneering effort in functional genomics since … for bioenergy and bioproduct applications. The program has completed over 70 projects, including gene synthesis, …