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… outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. These microscopic algae have managed to adapt to a unique set of … peering into the function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae … University of East Anglia, leads this effort to understand what makes polar photosynthesizers tick. He’s working with …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme … of Biological and Environmental Research to determine what genes respond to drought conditions, and how these …

… giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly available metagenome datasets generated from sampling sites around the world, including …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the … discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis.  This is a continuation of the previous … to a new appreciation for the extent of diversity. The phylogenetic and functional characterization of this novel …

Marcel is in charge of several production pipelines (gene calling, functional annotation and methylomics) that run on microbial genomes and metagenomes. He also works on … intra-department data exchange and assists with large scale computations on R&D projects. …

… a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that … was published online June 8, 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those … shelf-life — up to four years. Work is now underway to transfer the trait into other classes of common beans. …

Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s …