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… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of … protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes … et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in soil microbiome diversity and function.  Nature Microbiol. 7(9):1419-1430. …

… who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is also co-director of the …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was to bring … natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity toward innovative biotechnological and industrial …

The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that while archaeal hitchhikers may often …

… serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons … to help develop the JGI’s community outreach efforts with diversity, equity and inclusion in mind. Microbiome … review procedures and the organization of the JGI Annual Genomics of Energy & Meeting. Any investigator who has been …

… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial … Mol Cell . S1097-2765 Schulz F, et al. 2020. Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … deciphered function and host-symbiont interplay using metagenomics. Taking on a Research Scientist position in 2007, … 376:1453 Schulz et al. 2022. Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics. Nature …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially relevant to … close to our JGI hearts, we’re featuring some scintillating genomic science research that feels especially relevant to …

Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single Cells … space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and virus diversity in this group expanded 10-fold, offering the …