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A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that contribute to carbon cycling, and … consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) project, assessing how northern peatland ecosystems respond … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and assumed … 35, 725-731. Mukherjee et al. 2017. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage …

… 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis. Further, the symposium showcases … Program Tanja Woyke, Microbial Program Robert Bowers,  User Project Coordination Rekha Seshadri,  Functional Annotation …

Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … after the JGI was established to work on the Human Genome Project in 1997. She was a group lead at Stanford Human … she has continued to contribute across JGI plant genomes. She has appeared on the annual Highly Cited …

Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of … to the JGI user community and supports various user projects in the Microbial Program. In an LDRD-funded project, Dr. Schulz …

… schedule. This should be coming out on the first Thursday of the month, just like I promised. Now I just have to make … outreach program to get kids interested in microbiology and microbial chemistry. All good stuff, and I hope you enjoy … in is actually seeing whether we could go into the genomes and predict what the natural product might actually …

UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with …

To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international collaboration, …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play … at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the …