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… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Welcome back to Natural … They’re too hard to work with.” And that made me more determined than ever to stick with fungi. And now I think we …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … sequencing protocols so that researchers could compare results across the varying sampling locations. …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The JGI consists of around 280 researchers and support staff in the …

… research is focused on the discovery and characterization of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and … to identify new divergent lineages and expand the Tree of Life. We then investigate the coding potential to find … T Woyke (2022) Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics. Nature Reviews Microbiology …

The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring … The developed strains represent an additional phase of user-accessible project types, in which DNA-based … chromosomally integrated into a taxonomically diverse suite of microbial chassis strains for elevated opportunity for …

FY2023 Spending Profile The JGI is funded primarily by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), a program …

PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … microbial processes that support PCE biodegradation. The results demonstrate that it takes a (microbial) community to … are hazardous waste areas that require cleanup and long-term monitoring. The DOE has been similarly invested in …

… 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 …

Software engineers in the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software includes: gRNA-SeqRET , an organism-agnostic CRISPR …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … friends while working on their summer projects. Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their … top scientists in their fields. I have learned so much in terms of scientific approach and as a plant biologist, I …

… develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of viruses and novel microbial lineages, and reconstruct … and viral diversity, leading to a better understanding of microbial communities and ecosystem function.  The …