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… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail … diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much …

… college student, I never really entertained the possibility of working at a national laboratory. However, through the … with extraordinary scientists and gained exposure to new and different opportunities that could be available once …

… Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual … evolved from a white paper approved through JGI’s CSP New Investigator call to a full-scale submission. She aims …

… restoring and maintaining healthy soils – are at the heart of sustaining food and bioenergy security for a steadily … soil enrichment, is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … (Berkeley Lab), to help drive discoveries that will render new economic advantages for farmers concerned with improving …

… Joint Genome Institute and has focused on applying state-of-the-art molecular methods to address wide-ranging … Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley. Dr. Pennacchio received his Ph.D in 1998 from the Department of Genetics at Stanford University where he uncovered the …

… in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … found that anaerobic fungi from herbivore poop might be a new source of novel compounds to help bolster the … She also co-organized the NeLLi 2021 Symposium: From New Lineages of Life to New Functions. The seminars focus on …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to … Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … (NIH)  Common Fund Human Virome Program .  Nikos Kyrpides , head of the JGI’s  Microbiome Data Science , leads one …

… Advisory Committee is chartered by the Science Program Heads and report back to them. The Committee is chartered to … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the Program. The Committee serves as the Program's key external advisory panel and advocates of Program strategy, operations, and scientific relevance …

… Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … from infecting viruses and phages. In the event of a new infection, the microbes use the genetic information … cas1 genes. Further analysis led to the identification of a new family of Cas proteins, named Cas14. Using these …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … director of the Lab’s Computational Research Division and head of the High Performance Computing Research Department. …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … study coauthor Igor Grigoriev , JGI Fungal & Algal Program Head. “But still, there are no boundaries in the ocean. Yet, …