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… could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly …

… user community and supports various user projects in the Microbial Program. In an LDRD-funded project, Dr. Schulz … discovery pipeline and enrichment metagenomics for terrestrial protists. These approaches enable novel … academic achievements (2008) … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: … Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data and workflows for computational analysis and interpretation of sequence data. IMG/M is a web-based platform that provides access to the wealth of public microbiome …

… was the symbiont community of a gutless oligochaete for which she deciphered function and host-symbiont … primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and assumed … User Programs … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications.   … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under …

… to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, … for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make use of it, it would change the entire …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of … studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have used sequencing methods for the …