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… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … instead of lysing them, which appears to be prevalent in marine environments, they were predicted to simply abide … virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the ecological resistance of plants to the Earth’s ever-changing … plant lineages makes it ideal for comparative genomics studies, offering insight into genes critical for …

… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in  Nature … the human genome. Today, the Sanger Institute focuses on genomics to understand human and pathogen biology. Du Toit …

… user facilities. Focus areas for these projects include biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts; hydrobiogeochemistry; … interorganismal interactions; and novel applications of molecular techniques. The FICUS program is designed to … Source at Argonne National Laboratory, and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) through the National …

… Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated … program is now an author on a Nucleic Acids Research publication. The paper describes the version 6 data updates … in GOLD. “Besides these, he curated several small sets of phylogeny, biosample metadata tasks we assigned.”       …

… As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual … of these talks below, starting with Ari Patrinos. The Genomics Arms Race Ari Patrinos , Former Director of DOE’s … artist Nigel Sussman recently finished at the Integrative Genomics Building, the JGI’s home at Berkeley Lab. Like the …

… than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … around the world. That said, we recognize that workforce in genomics, including JGI, is not representative of the … graduate student summer research experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program expanded to include UC Merced …

… Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and … portfolio also includes a project led by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) in collaboration with … Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC) to produce open metagenomics data. Taking the JGI’s call for large-scale …

… Registration has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on …