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New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … produced in environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the … the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to contribute towards a diverse workforce and …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published … did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab process. Typically, after incubating microbial communities with labeled …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses are also able to …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … the ability to break down hardy plant cell walls and therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an … of small DNA fragments into larger and coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and … Services Honoree, 2022 Peter-Boyer Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence, 2015 34th Annual Women’s …

… works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … are generated through Community Science Program funding calls. JGI has research funding grants aimed specifically at …

… large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the … to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the … stratified, rainfall dependent, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms. Nature Microbiology 2019 …

JGI! They are among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for demonstrating “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … the JGI whose publications rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year are: Igor Grigoriev Natalia …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … bean. Though the JGI no longer works on food crops specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … with the photobiont transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling … soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in … at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a plant’s root cells, and both …