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… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Kyrpides led the development of the genome analysis and Bioinformatics core at Integrated … his postdoctoral studies with Carl Woese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Argonne National …

… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how … have propelled the creation of a vast resource: nearly 3,000 genome-wide binding maps for 360 transcription factors … design and engineer organisms tailored for bioproducts and ecosystem resilience.  Aligned with DOE Biological and …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on … project in the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program. In 2023, Shayna Bennett, a UC Merced graduate student in Carolin …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … pressure on retaining the flagellum in the terrestrial ecosystems. Unfortunately, neither paper was able to resolve …

… to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model laboratory ecosystems (EcoFABs). … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … these infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive the energy and nutrient …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … from looking at single organisms to applying a broader ecosystem perspective, involving more multidisciplinary …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is …

… novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … , information the Probst lab used to search for and find 13 additional predicted viral  genomes . The team dubbed …

… and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to … annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a protein identified from their … was used to take the complex, high-dimensional data (the 136 tetranucleotide frequencies for each of the 12,063 …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of … researchers recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, including the U.S. …