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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … energy and environmental challenges. Chlamydomonas is a single-celled alga with a unique place in evolutionary …

Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became Platform Lead where she manages metabolomics …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to …

… with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI researchers and collaborators work to create FAIR … advances. Over the last two decades, Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) has opened vast windows into specific activities …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually … Roots … Making Big Data Metagenomic Clustering Scalable … Cataloging Lineage Specific Conserved Genes in Giant Viruses …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership …

Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a … so the adage goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and … can break down plant fibers. But are they both actually doing the job? By analyzing the enzymes present in the complex …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events such as …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with …