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Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it … ocean could fix less carbon when infected. Little is known about virus-infected microbial cells that are transformed … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times … in water, makes up the overwhelming majority of the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and …

… resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel … decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high … the University of Konstanz and the University of Vienna  reported recovering draft metagenome-assembled genomes for …

As an Integrative Genome Science User Facility, the JGI plays a leadership role in enabling the frontiers of … Technologies and Data Science & Informatics. The JGI also sustains a vibrant community of postdoctoral and early career …

… (JBEI) and in 2017 joined the Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Tina serves in an HR advisory role to Division/Area … to enabling conflict resolution with respect and trust. Tina is very enthusiastic to be a part of the Berkeley Lab’s first Conflict …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii … managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect … a cysteine protease involved in capsid maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department … were considered to be complete genomes, and their discovery has extended the possible virophage genome size range …

Dehalococcoides mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team has also been able to discover additional microbes that contribute to the cleanup by …

… of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ … the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … mycorrhizal fungi. Microbiome 199 Needham, D.M. et al. 2019. A distinct lineage of giant viruses brings a rhodopsin …

The JGI leverages its existing partnerships and develops others … expand data functionality. Close partnerships with other user facilities enable the ability to leverage their … through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program.     …