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… of natural products, Professor Bill Fenical from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. Bill is a pioneer … powerful people. These were people that really controlled microbial drug discovery. And a guy like me, with no … to study bacteria, fungi, archaea, the whole range of microbial life. So, we just started out. And we started …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements … that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale Applications group also carries …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … Advanced Research on the Biology of Tree and Forest Ecosystems (ARBRE) (ANR-11-LABX 0002 01 to F. Martin), JGI …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received … was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial assemblies, revealing the roles of microbial communities in carbon cycling, in interactions with plants, …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this extreme environment are often less …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … of biology and computer science, to reveal clues about how microbial and bacteria communities influence the carbon-sequestering abilities of …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By … this kind of analysis is the ability to see how microbial communities interact; beyond bacteria, these samples …

Dr. Eloe-Fadrosh joined the JGI in 2014 to pursue her research interests in microbial ecology and metagenomics. Her current research … of Maryland School of Medicine and her graduate work in microbial oceanography at Scripps Institution of …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the … discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis.  This is a continuation of the previous … lineages in biogeochemical cycles and beyond, as well as microbial symbioses. We aim to foster discussions centered …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … invisible to the sampling experiments probing Earth’s ecosystems. Viruses rarely grow well in environmental … because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material …