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JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … 10 times larger. And yet, while they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about viruses, much less those … been co-cultivated with amoeba or with their hosts, though metagenomics is now making it possible to seek out and …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in a … current PhD student, reached this milestone with a recent publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution . “It’s my first publication and it feels so rewarding,” Wint said. For Axel …

… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …

… for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … techniques including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , …