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

… The JGI is excited to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Facilities (FICUS) … user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; … interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular techniques. The FICUS program is designed to …

… 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 … and around the planet–through techniques including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” …

… UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by … JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for …

… – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … UEA and including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics … breadth of algal diversity, the numbers of sequenced algal genomes, and the quality of those genomes, is rising. The …

… Wednesday, March 18: "Genomics of Environmental Opportunism: Fungal Adaptation at the Edge of Pathogenicity" Workshop Steven Ahrendt presenting  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 web-based tools for comparative genomics and …

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

… we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… 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. …