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… Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research projects from PIs … alpine soils to tropical glaciers.  Proposals are accepted year-round for this ongoing call; the next deadline for …

… for fungal metagenomics. Two more CSP proposals came in 2016 that would complement these initial efforts: Spatafora and … has “significantly advanced our understanding of 1 billion years of evolution in Kingdom Fungi — from phylogenetic …

… approach for isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to … of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nature Plants 10, 673–688 Vyshenska et al. 2023. A standardized quantitative … 2016. Visualizing in situ translational activity for identifying and sorting slow-growing archaeal− bacterial …

… fungus Rhizopus microsporus." Nature Communications 16, no. 1 (2025): 3843. McCahill, Ian W., Logayn T. Abushal, … DNA affinity purification sequencing (DAP-seq) to identify in vitro binding sites of potential Novosphingobium … across a bacterial population." Nature genetics 49, no. 8 (2017): 1282-1285. Luke, Chung Sze, Jangir Selimkhanov, Leo …

… interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This year the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Malmstrom, Nandita Nath & W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan … – were selected to continue their research over the school year.   …

… Wilken, Jing Yuan, and Brittany N. Zepernick.    Each year, the JGI solicits novel research projects from PIs who … a list of researchers whose proposals were accepted for 2026. With the JGI's resources, these researchers will harness … crop resilience and soil health. Proposals are accepted year-round for this ongoing call; the next deadline for …

… analysis pipelines.  Beyond profiling over 10k samples/year, Dr. Louie and her team work with other JGI scientists … to assess metabolite turnover, DNA-SIP for helping identify active micro-organisms within complex communities, and … genomic data (MAGI) for functional annotation and identifying unknown compounds (Pactolus). …

… contributing to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic … aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were … remain.  To identify the microbes involved in the early years of the biodegradation process, researchers collected …