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Identifying the Microbial Cleanup Crew at a Superfund Site
Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The … and analysis, the researchers identified other bacteria and microbial processes that support PCE biodegradation. The results demonstrate that it takes a (microbial) community to clean up a Superfund site. The …
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Notes on the Microbial Diversity of Puerto Nuevo’s Coastline
… first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in her first microbial ecology paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto … a fishing town and we know little about its coastal microbial ecology. We also know little about where to …
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High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant
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JGI Plant Gene Atlas: an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom
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Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single … Genomics Department Head for the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of the Lab’s Biosciences Area since … at the JGI’s 14th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting, as well as Mircea Podar of Oak Ridge National …
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Decoding Yellowstone’s Microbial Mats
Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …
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A Standardized Synthetic Eucalyptus Transcription Factor and Promoter Panel for Re-engineering Secondary Cell Wall Regulation in Biomass and Bioenergy Crops
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Interdisciplinary delegation from the University of Duisburg-Essen explores collaborative opportunities with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory … of topics related to structural biology, single cell and systems biology, omics, and big data science, machine … science, energy conversion and water treatment as well as microbial ecology with a focus on metabolism and ecosystem …
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Igor Grigoriev
Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He … analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program …
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A vast collection of microbial genes that are toxic to bacteria
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Computationally Classifying Fungal Lifestyles
… nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and … clusters showed a >95 % accuracy in correctly predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S … and also provides more information about speciation events. … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of …
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MAGI: A Method for Metabolite Annotation and Gene Integration
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