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… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, … the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what it means in a …

… A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National … UDE familiarized themselves with the research programs and user facilities at Berkeley Lab. Commenting on the visit, JGI Director Nigel Mouncey expressed enthusiasm about the potential of this collaboration stating, “We …

… [subhed -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae … feedstocks that can thrive in saltwater mitigates concerns about diverting resources such as arable land and fresh …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three undergraduates and seven … through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the students participated in networking … Watch the short video here to see what they had to say about their experiences and what they’ll take with them as …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled … viruses (from environmental metagenome samples) from IMG/VR , a database that is part of the Integrated Microbial …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … subsurface ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). To learn more about how microbial populations respond to virus infections, …

… plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for … specific conditions – in over a dozen plants. To learn more about the project, HudsonAlpha’s Research Communication … It was developed to improve plant genome annotations at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)*, …

… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one … sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year history. In 2019, the countdown has begun to the … prospective partners to generate awareness of and clarity about the JGI’s strategic directions,” said Mouncey. “In …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: …   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize users with the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data and workflows for computational analysis and …

… joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and … sites and which has been applied to a wide range of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. … cells across diverse plant tissues. Dr. Baumgart focuses on expanding functional genomics capabilities through …