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The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon …

Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The accepted proposals come from 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. … to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then … The work builds upon a pilot project to sequence antimicrobial-producing strains. Established by Handelsman, Tiny …

… working in 21 fields appear on the list, and those from the JGI are: Kerrie Barry I-Min Chen Igor Grigoriev … that  released a very high quality reference genome sequence of green millet ( Setaria viridis ) in  Nature … that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples …

Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped by dam removal to …

… return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to … that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of … and a blotchy yellowing of leaves, a team of researchers sequenced  P. trifoliata ’s genome. Scientists at the US …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural … a Research Scientist position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her … primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and assumed …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …