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… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … Program (CSP) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the JGI. With the past few years upended by the …

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

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … synthesized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to bring together a “Viral EcoGenomics” community to foster … and characterize uncultivated viruses, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes contribution of scholarship in the field of microbiology and is awarded …

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to promote … Participation (CAMP) students at UC Merced. CAMP is a statewide initiative funded by the National Science Foundation …

Krishna is responsible for the design and maintenance of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data warehouse, and integration of genomic and …

Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, … annotation and methylomics) that run on microbial genomes and metagenomes. He also works on automating intra-department data …

… more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with interactive web-based tools for comparative genomics and …

JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates … through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …