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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended
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Genome sequences of key bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes: Xenorhabdus cabanillasii DSM17905, Xenorhabdus ehlersii DSM16337, Xenorhabdus japonica DSM16522, Xenorhabdus koppenhoeferii DSM18168, and Xenorhabdus mauleonii DSM17908
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Researching and Solving Real-World Problems with the 2023 JGI-UC Merced Interns
… For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … huge amounts of data. I was excited to work on fungal genomics and the fact that I got to do a project involving …
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Expanding Virophage Diversity
… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & …
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JGI@25: Stories from Intern Alumni
… anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and …
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Forest Fungi, Seagrass, and a New View of Symbiosis
… Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass …
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SIPs with Standards
… Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial … SIP labwork and analysis can be very demanding.  The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to … more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …
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Mike Sneddon
… Dr. Sneddon is the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team of engineers and scientists builds and operates the data and … leader in data, software, compute, and AI for large-scale genomics and lab informatics. Prior to joining JGI in late …
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Toasting to the 2020 JGI-UC Merced Summer Internship Program
… 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 …
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Phytozome: Tutorial Workshop from 2022 CROPS Conference @HudsonAlpha
… Phytozome workshop held during the June 2022 CROPS Conference at the HudsonAlpha … for Biotechnology. Phytozome is the Plant Comparative Genomics portal of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and …
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MGM Workshop at Fisabio Summer School
… June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is addressed to students and professionals of biology, biomedical research, the health sciences and related fields who are interested in learning and sharing concepts, tools and …
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