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… team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms … interactions. This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew …

… to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one … They play key roles in global carbon cycling, are sources of natural products, and have potential as biofuel … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for …

… first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto Nuevo is, historically, a fishing … a strong role in my career interests post-Ph.D. in the sciences. “ Ul-Hasan was one of two UC Merced graduate …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into … by the DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program to enable scientific discovery in support of the DOE …

Dr. I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her research has been focused on semantic and … Lab. Dr. Chen is currently the Microbiome Computational Resource Lead at the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) family of systems. Before joining …

… and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on … graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group …

… joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of … and Bioprocessing R&D Director and Leader at Dow AgroSciences in Indianapolis. During his time in industry, Dr. … responsibilities toward the JGI internal scientific programs, the affiliated DOE National Laboratories, the …

… computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost … nutrient cycling, or carbon sequestration. Summary Existing programs use a variety of approaches to match a virus with a …

… mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing resources provided by NERSC, another user facility at Berkeley … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …