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The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using … of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … non-flagellated terrestrial fungi suggested that there were multiple flagellum loss events during the diversification of … data . Taking the advantage of rapid development of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the …

June 24-28: Module 2/Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop The workshop is … will train participants in state-of-the-art analytical methods in this area, by means of theoretical lectures and seminars as well as practical hands-on sessions in bioinformatics and biostatistics. …

… sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research … nature. In the last few years, mapping the planet’s viral diversity has advanced drastically, aided by genome assembly …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek … Walnut Creek, after countless generations of sequencing platforms (up to 120 sequencing machines at maximum) maintained … Walnut Creek and deciding on what was essential. There were multiple waste streams to consider, including unneeded …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … person needs establish the culture of workforce safety and diversity and working together and making a welcoming and …

Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … so far selected the authors of these pieces to represent diversity in research area, gender, as well as stage of …

See below for examples of successful Letters of Intent to our … in a cosmopolitan and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during …

JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The … In a  2019 paper , the team applied computational methods and analyses developed for JGI-enabled research …