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… Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of … set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along …

… To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the … the JGI through a Community Science Program (CSP) proposal, and Rambo’s research builds on that. “The purpose of this CSP is to better understand methane cycling in mangrove wetlands in south Texas,” he …

…   The JGI is excited to announce the 18 scientists selected for our 2025 Community Science Program Annual Call. These projects include cutting-edge research into microbial communities — from freshwater estuaries reshaped by dam removal to …

… Pictured from left: [Top row]: Romy Chakraborty, Dawn Chiniquy, Anne Glaesener, Steven Hallam, Marc Hanikenne, Cheryl Kerfeld, Jeffrey Marlow;  [Row 2]: N. …

… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week … preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, … began in 2014, pairs undergraduate and graduate students from UC Merced with at least one JGI mentor. Together, they …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? This session will demonstrate to students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a …

… with the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and other national user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular …

… Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial … 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes contribution of …

… 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the virus and plasmid workflows for the National Microbiome Data …