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This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in … on Intensive Agricultural Lands Changes Nitrogen Cycling Microbial Communities and Reduces N2O Production Potential … stable isotope approaches for resolving nitrogen transformations in the critical zone” 8:03am Convention Center …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in the  …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which … The JGI offers SIP analysis to make these experiments accessible to more researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical … publicly available data in the JGI’s  IMG/M database , information the Probst lab used to search for and find 13 …

Find a series of webinars related to our Integrated Microbial Genomics & …

Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who … selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads … and management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and …

This summer, the DOE JGI hosted 10 interns who came from a wide range of backgrounds. Many of them spent the summer crunching genomic data at a computer; a few had the opportunity … at UC Merced . CAMP is a statewide initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and supports …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria … these distractions. Combining genome and transcriptome information allowed the team to have a much more comprehensive …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially … how microbes interact with their environment, potentially accelerating soil carbon loss. Orange ribbons mark the heated …

Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he … viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be …