Search

… of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do … tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses can affect their prey … small proportion of the sample’s billions of bacterial and archaeal cells — and detected the virus in 34 hosts or 26 …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. …

Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although … Science User Facility, has been developing and applying new genomics capabilities that address these issues. Check the …

Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership roles within large DOE-funded research programs using mass … Institute and the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … his team tracked the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array developed at …

… expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis. Further, the symposium showcases cutting-edge experimental approaches, computational … symposium series will provide an overview of the bacterial, archaeal and microeukaryote diversity cataloged and …

Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of the … for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the …

… function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing … point out. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon …

… clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of … Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria …

… , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In … before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was applied to a recent Nature Communications paper, …

… some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling … managed to adapt to a unique set of conditions in polar waters, including vast shifts in sunlight and frigid …

… in 2004 from the Max Planck Institute in Hanover, Germany, where he developed novel tools for large-scale in situ gene … organisms. During his postdoctoral training at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he developed and … the gene regulatory landscape of vertebrate genomes, which led to the discovery of thousands of genetic switches …