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Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … and management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and … has changed our understanding of the microbiome and the microbial sciences field. Roux will be recognized at the …

… in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … team found that fungi are playing a bigger role in soil decomposition processes than expected. The transcriptome data …

Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially … public agricultural research corporation, is focused on microbial interactions on the Amazon forest floor. Alicia …

… viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

A quick snippet on Antonio 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 viruses …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense … Banfield is a pioneer in metagenomic studies, recovering microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine …

… to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her Single Cells team …

… for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …

… genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a … characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they … (LDRD) entitled ‘Tackling microbial-mediated plant carbon decomposition using “function-driven” genomics’. …

… in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade.” … a series of webinars featuring aspects of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) Nikos Kyrpides was … research consortium that collected and analyzed microbial samples from public transit stations across 60 …