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… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke … User Programs … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …

… a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to fill in … author of the study and head of the JGI’s Microbiome Annotation Group. Many of these bacterial and archaeal genome … resource, but also yielding and supporting many high-impact publications ,” emphasized Markus Göker, who managed the …

To understand how organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund study organisms living in hot springs. …

The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be found throughout the water column, from the warm, …

… genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have … and lignin in plant cell walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. Finally, there …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene … for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect …

A two-day kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed interdisciplinary delegation from the University …

… single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she … to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These … now available for male and female plants of fire moss. Most notably, the work revealed that the U and V sex chromosomes …