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… – $250 Students & Postdocs – $200 Regular Rates (begin September 19, 2026) General & Berkeley Lab Attendee – $300 Students & Postdocs – $250   Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the 5th Viral EcoGenomics and Applications (VEGA) … VEGA 26 will take place at the UC Berkeley MLK Building, in the East Pauley Ballroom, November 18–19, 2026. The …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical … researchers are using Altiarchaea as a model system to study virus-host interactions. Approximately 150 archaeal …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest … which take inventory of which microbes are present. This study, published in Nature Microbiology , went a step …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome … four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the study first author Carey put it, these sex chromosomes first …

… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the … comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program since 2011. Prior to joining the DOE …