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… microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck … strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing … DNA could be sequenced. Their protocol,  detailed in the journal  Microbiome , combines multiple techniques and was …

… Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … and they agreed, providing three articles for the journal with Du Toit as their editor. The partnership has …

… large and giant. In a recent study  published in the journal  Nature , a team led by researchers at the U.S. … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly …

… allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … who led the research team and is the head of the Viral Genomics group at the JGI, thinks that if you’re a virus or …

… Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a …

… for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers … biofuel production. Efforts such as the 1000 Fungal Genomics Project led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute … of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, aim to improve our understanding of fungal diversity by sequencing genomes …

… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers … Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … diversity has doubled, but in reality it could be three or four or five or tenfold more out there.” Digging Further into …

… insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused … In addition, this work reflects a collaboration between two programs within different Divisions of the Office of …

… Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … Woyke currently serves as the interim deputy for JGI User Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the American … as Adjunct Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and as Associate Adjunct Professor at the …