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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
… leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the virus and … management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and impactful … year in Berkeley, Calif. Convening the “viral ecogenomics” community, the VEGA symposium provides networking …
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Mining Metagenomes for Cas Proteins
… at UC Berkeley and the Innovative Genomics Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then … the event of a new infection, the microbes use the genetic information encoded in CRISPR sequences to target the virus …
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Microbial Community Field Surveys Reveal Abundant Pseudomonas Population in Sorghum Rhizosphere Composed of Many Closely Related Phylotypes
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Position-Specific Metabolic Probing and Metagenomics of Microbial Communities Reveal Conserved Central Carbon Metabolic Network Activities at High Temperatures
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Ecological Dichotomies Arise in Microbial Communities Due to Mixing of Deep Hydrothermal Waters and Atmospheric Gas in a Circumneutral Hot Spring
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Integration of Metagenomic and Stable Carbon Isotope Evidence Reveals the Extent and Mechanisms of Carbon Dioxide Fixation in High-Temperature Microbial Communities
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Viral community analysis in a marine oxygen minimum zone indicates increased potential for viral manipulation of microbial physiological state
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Microbial communities associated with sympagic and planktonic habitats during a polar vortex influencing the North American Great Lakes Basin
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Getting to the Bottom of Fungal Functions Across Earth’s Forests
… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … yet,” said Igor Grigoriev, Fungal Genomics Program Head at the JGI.  Along with an improved … These tools give researchers a way to access much more information about fungi in these environments. “Now with …
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Kjiersten Fagnan
… Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a … the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s Data Science and Informatics department head.  Dr. Fagnan is also … Data Collaborative where she leads infrastructure and user-centered design efforts. Dr. Fagnan was on the …
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Mining Public Databases Yields Largest Map of Fungal Mitochondrial Genomes to Date
… MycoCosm — a platform widely used across the research community — the work lowers technical barriers for … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility at Berkeley Lab, addressed this gap in a … genome assemblies in the National Center for Biotechnology Information's GenBank. This led to identifying 6,467 of …
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Engagement Webinar: Accessing NEON’s Environmental Sample Archives, Applying JGI & EMSL Omics Tools
… Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  Environmental … or do I need a faculty member as PI? A(nswer: The FICUS program is open to scientists at international institutes.  … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …
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