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… in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … and Tanja Woyke, were all instrumental in the development of the Novel Metagenome Protein Families (NMPF) Catalog . … Grigoriev’s recent work includes the discovery of anaerobic fungi’s ability to break down lignin , the hardiest of plant …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … component of the prokaryotic virome associated with nearly all bacterial phyla across virtually every ecosystem.” …

Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is also co-director of the … paper describing the genomes of the five major cotton lineages. Grimwood was also part of the JGI team that …

… in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the number of … of virophages.” Lead author David Paez-Espino  discussed an early version of the paper at the 2018 Viral EcoGenomics & …

You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and … including the genomic dynamics of biofuel-producing fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, …

… efforts to expand the metabolomics capabilities and product offerings for JGI users.  Using cutting-edge mass … techniques, the platform delivers rich metabolite profiles from diverse biological and environmental samples in … BP, Olson HM, Purvine SO, Salamov A, et al. Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. Proc …

JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … is interested in understanding which species of mycorrhizal fungi are important for poplar plant health, in part to …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … said Axel Visel , JGI Deputy for Science Programs. “It clearly speaks to the enormous impact her contributions have … of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, who spoke at the 2019 New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Meeting organized by the JGI, were …

… exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … in the Florida Everglades to help train the next generation of scientists. She shares her thoughts about the experience below. In the summer of 2018, Jonathan Benskin was preparing to teach a second …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures …