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Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … & Applications (VEGA) Symposium , which will take place later this year in Berkeley, Calif. Convening the “viral … analysis to better characterize how viruses infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems function. He was …

Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth … mentor Robert Bowers, Mobile Genetic Elements and CRISPR Spacers in the Conifer Needle Microbiome Carlos Vazquez and … extremophile protists from a hypersaline alkaline lake in California. Sandra Hernandez Gonzalez : Out of this …

And also specifically, it sparked my interest in bioformatics, so that’s what I’m gonna take with me to the … are a little bit stronger in computing, so I was kind of worried coming into the, the internship that maybe I didn’t have as good of skills as somebody else might have. But Robert, uh, Bob …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially … kind of plant metabolism. This metabolism, called crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM — that’s C-A-M, for short — …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … rig explosion that dumped nearly five million barrels of light crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, … the mystery of the missing oil: “There was oil on the surface and oil below, but no oil in between.” To find an …

… to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … the roles viruses and their host microbes play in nutrient cycles. … This work was supported by the U.S. Department of …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological …

… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 billion worldwide underscores its value and importance in the fabric of our lives. In the United States, cotton production …