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Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … and management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and … discussions on how to capture and characterize viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in … genomes of uncultivated giant viruses from environmental sequences across the globe, then using these sequences to … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly …

Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A … State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially … collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently burned …

… fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by … that  released a very high quality reference genome sequence of green millet ( Setaria viridis ) in  Nature … that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples …

National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He … et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function.  Nature Microbiol. 7(9):1419-1430. … and lignocellulose degradation encoded in the genome sequence of  Schizophyllum commune . Nat Biotech.  2010; 28: …

… return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …