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… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The …

… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium hybridum . …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of nutrients in these systems.” -Mike …

… The JGI is excited to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Facilities (FICUS) program for fiscal year 2026, in partnership with the Environmental Molecular Sciences …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science …

… Gary Trubl is finishing his PhD in Microbiology at The Ohio State University, co-advised by Drs. Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan. He shared a few thoughts on …

… A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI …

… Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like …

… This summer marked the first fully in-person internship experience in several years for students and researchers alike at the …

… Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to … The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, … FTICR-MS analyses were performed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) …

… A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend …