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… 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, …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea … Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. …

… Wednesday, March 18: "Genomics of Environmental Opportunism: Fungal Adaptation at the Edge of Pathogenicity" Workshop Steven Ahrendt … Friday, March 20: JGI-EMSL Workshop: "Toward 10,000 Fungal Genomes and Phenotypes" …

… more about MycoCosm, a data portal with over 2,000 fungal genomes and multi-omics datasets, equipped with interactive … tools for comparative genomics and community annotation. Presented by Igor Grigoriev, Steven Mondo, Steven Ahrendt and Sajeet Haridas. …

… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers … software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 … the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to leverage novel …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years … after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one long building at Walnut Creek, after …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The … the JGI’s Community Science Program , the team used metagenome assemblies, transcriptomes and single amplified genomes from samples collected from several locations to …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… PPE or Personal Protective Equipment is worn to minimize exposure to … can cause workplace injuries and illnesses.  PPE or Personal Protective Equipment is worn to minimize exposure to … illnesses. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical, biological, physical, mechanical, or …