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… (VEGA) Symposium , which will take place later this year in Berkeley, Calif. Convening the “viral ecogenomics” …

… Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research projects from PIs … alpine soils to tropical glaciers.  Proposals are accepted year-round for this ongoing call; the next deadline for …

… interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Malmstrom, Nandita Nath & W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan … – were selected to continue their research over the school year.   …

… Control of Drought Response in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of … impact the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in … and the Office of Science (BER), DOE Grant DE-SC0012460 (to M.J.H.). Work conducted by the DOE Joint Genome …

… of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to teach a second year A-Level Advanced International Certificate of Education … answers being, “It would take a team of Ph.D.’s over a year to do a project at this capacity.” Jonathan’s thought … used to map their routes had been taken. Sifting through 16 Trillion Bases of DNA Taking into consideration some …

… Wilken, Jing Yuan, and Brittany N. Zepernick.    Each year, the JGI solicits novel research projects from PIs who … a list of researchers whose proposals were accepted for 2026. With the JGI's resources, these researchers will harness … crop resilience and soil health. Proposals are accepted year-round for this ongoing call; the next deadline for …

… to boost understanding of environmental viruses. In 2016, Nikos Kyrpides at the JGI led a team that combed datasets … the number of known viral genes by a factor of 16. The same year, the JGI expanded its existing Integrated Microbial … inform on how this can be done” Roux said. And in just 6 years, IMG/VR has built a foundation for finding more of …

… biofuels and bioproducts, and medicine. Wading through 30 years of sequencing data, the team composed of Wu, Seshadri, … data directly from environmental samples over the years have significantly expanded the known diversity of … , the team found that isolate genomes represent only 6.55% while MAGs account for about 57% of the estimated …

… technology has changed dramatically over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for … at more ecosystems and organisms than ever before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was almost 717 trillion. Last year, the JGI surpassed three Petabases of data sequenced — …

… to keep processes running smoothly. As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal … Though such visits have been impossible for the past year and a half, “the logistics haven’t changed,” noted …

… This year’s list features 6,900 researchers working in 21 fields.  Congratulations to … rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor Grigoriev (Cross-field)  Marcel Huntemann …