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… fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent … how life thrives in the Arctic, and how different types of microbes form communities. As temperatures fluctuate, salt … Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery program grants to C.L. Support from the Canada First Research …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology … (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells group. She has … methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in …

… and thrust lead on PNNL’s Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the … the Ecological Society of America. He’s interested in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and … as served on review panels for the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposals. He  brings experience representative …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in … heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after the … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

Matthew Hudson, Megan Keller and Julia Kelliher; [below] Vassili Kouvelis, Seppe Kuehn, Tesfaye Mengiste, Egbert … scientists selected for our 2024 Community Science Program Annual Call. “It’s exciting to see the diverse … and biogeochemistry. You can learn more about this call, as well as smaller-scale calls including our New …

… the microbiome of the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; … cells and then amplifying their DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is …

… elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or as … of Science User Facility, through its  Community Science Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes … communication between the plant and fungus. Discovering how microbes can influence plant physiology helps scientists …

Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up … and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants …

… to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and Science … Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from the School of Natural … Clarissa Nobile, investigating interactions between microbes and venomous hosts. She also facilitates the …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The … However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, … of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The microbes that play key roles in cycling nutrients such as …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove … make use of it, it would change the entire landscape of biomass production and bioproduct engineering. Summary That … skeleton. It’s more complex, and poisons enzymes and the  microbes that make them. It’s known that aerobic fungi, like …

Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis … (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar … Thomson Reuters …