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New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … hot springs, an extreme environment with low genetic diversity that would help narrow down potential sources of …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields … Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What effect has your summer …

Maureen is currently developing new high-resolution and high-throughput methods to link uncultivated viruses to their host. With these new methods, she hopes to expand our understanding of the roles …

… of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This … sugar polymers in macroalgae and developing the first microbial platform technologies unlocking the potential of … transcriptomic atlas of acute stress response to low pH in multiple Issatchenkia orientalis strains., Microbial …

… to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and have … to an exceptional caliber of scientists.” For her project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in … aid the accessibility and reproducibility of my project methods, and I hope that this open-source platform will be …

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.” … a series of webinars featuring aspects of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) Nikos Kyrpides was …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … enzymes in specialized metabolism, organisms tend to evolve multiple copies of enzymes, similar to including half a …

Dr. I-Min A. Chen received her Ph.D. in Computer Science. Her … of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) data management tools for scientific applications developed at Berkeley Lab. Dr. … for the data management infrastructure of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) family of systems. Before joining …

… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our … a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a … sample, or a rumen sample, you’re going to find beautiful diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … to become an essential tool for researching global viral diversity. geNomad has already been downloaded thousands of …

… scientific relevance and quality. The Committees do not perform management functions nor do they direct the Programs’ …