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JGIota: Looking Back at How Cow Rumen Samples Landed on a Syllabus
Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State …
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River microbiomes from around the world: Kelly Wrighton
Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive … the world’s river microbiomes. And they’re using team science to do it.   …
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Neha Varghese
Neha’s key role is to design, benchmark, and apply … and interpretation of genomic and metagenomic data for JGI’s user community. She also provides support for user science and projects through implementation of advanced …
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Viral Genomics Group
Microbes drive critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under … by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and …
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Duplications and losses of genes encoding known elements of the stress defence system of the Aspergilli contribute to the evolution of these filamentous fungi but do not directly influence their environmental stress tolerance
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Tanja Woyke Awarded van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics
Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … Lab), Woyke currently serves as the interim deputy for JGI User Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the … as Adjunct Scientist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and as Associate Adjunct Professor at the …
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NeLLi — Symposium on New Lineages of Life
The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward … (NIOZ) Nicole Poulton , Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Sciences Roland Hatzenpichler , Montana State University   …
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Crops as Tough as World Cup Turf
In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in …
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Improved High-Quality Draft Genome Sequence of the Eurypsychrophile Rhodotorula sp. JG1b, Isolated from Permafrost in the Hyperarid Upper-Elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
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From Textbook to Real World Applications
When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La …
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Synthetic Biology Informatics Group
Software engineers in the Synthetic Biology Informatics Group develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software …
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Notes on the Microbial Diversity of Puerto Nuevo’s Coastline
Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. … Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the … a strong role in my career interests post-Ph.D. in the sciences. “ Ul-Hasan was one of two UC Merced graduate …
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