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Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, … Marlis Reich, Taniya RoyChowdhury and Mar Schmidt; [bottom] Cody Spiegel, James Tan, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, … led any previously accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows …

… learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several … Facility, developed an algorithm that a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and …

… have now developed CheckV (pronounced “Check-Vee”) to help researchers assess and improve the quality of … Environmental DNA sequencing can help scientist to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them … fragmented data, which limits the ability of researchers to accurately perform functional assessment, host …

University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her primary interest … User Programs … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …

DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial … … Fungal & Algal Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …

… decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research community.  Published January 17, … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the current state of …

The JGI welcomes three new members to the JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland … nine other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved … — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the … The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for …

… site. The chemical PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via … mccartyi and  Dehalobacter restrictus,  that work together to break down PCE into the chemical compound ethene. …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a … polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene families involved in adaptations seen in later plant …

… fungi are part of the genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and … samples, this study also tracks the enzymes these fungi use to break down wood, and compares genetic diversity between … Impact Lentinula mushrooms are white rot fungi, belonging to an elite group of decomposers that can break down all of …

… bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing … bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce these enzymes to break down polysaccharides. But …