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… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life had found other ways to produce energy, using a process called fermentation. To better … prokaryotes, including two bacteria isolated by their lab. KBase was used to rapidly assemble and annotate …

… metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a … But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a … virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact …

Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, functional annotation and methylomics) that run on microbial … exchange and assists with large scale computations on R&D projects. …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex … interest. Matt also supports various CSP and FICUS user projects for the Metagenome Program. …

The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … better understand arsenic mobility and to better understand their roles in the global sulfur cycle. Copies are available …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … evolution and rapid changes in both genome content and structure following a genome duplication event that occured … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … zinc-binding proteins are important for primary metabolism such as photosynthesis and gene regulation.  Mock and his …

… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … bacterium, along with its life cycle. For most bacteria, their DNA floats freely within the cytoplasm of their cells. … the whole cell are actually contained within a structure that has a membrane,” Volland said. “And this is very …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating … new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much more comprehensive understanding of how a fundamental …

Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is often reduced compared to that of a free-living organism. First … extremophilic archaea first outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While most DPANN lineages are …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In their analysis, they found the salinity changes led the …