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More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s … Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant … of its flagship education program with UC Merced. JGI Director Nigel Mouncey and program organizers Wang, Visel and …

… head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to … stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes …

Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … of them archaea. The Quake lab had previously collaborated with the JGI on a proposal using this approach through the …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are … production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of … ) in  Nature Biotechnology.  The work also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in … these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of … is crucial to understanding what these viruses can do. Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, …

… in its environment, this alga reveals a remarkable ability to adapt to stress and rapid environmental changes. Researchers were … of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with younger, thinner ice means more fresh water — and less …

… some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch …

Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated … a more targeted genomic approach would allow researchers to focus on specific microbes within metagenome samples and associate their sequences with …

With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more … the earth, but most species do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists … capability that is desirable in the microbiome field due to its high recovery of single-cell genomes. This is key to …

… kick-off meeting held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) marked the visit of an esteemed … from the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany with the aim of intensifying collaborations in the fields of … Storage & Distributed Resources Division at Berkeley Lab.  Building on the momentum of a Memorandum of Understanding …

… when and how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time estimates for major colonization … that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean …

… decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research community.  Published January 17, … Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group. “Turns out …