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… and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to … genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The … attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, …

Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  Further analysis led to the identification of 328 “high quality” (based on …

… and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the … and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong … graduate student  interns’ presentations on their research findings. Click here to watch   a video of the celebration. …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … “All along the way, it was just like rediscovering genetics, with the evolution of sequencing technologies and …

… of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, … expanded 10-fold from just 205 genomes, redefining the phylogenetic tree of giant viruses. Metabolic Reprogramming a … Strategy for Large and Giant Viruses Another significant finding from the study was a common strategy employed by …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … analyses to continuously refine and improve the process of finding novel Cas genes and CRISPR systems. The …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are … head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to …

The JGI welcomes three new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, … six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … ch allenges. Methane emissions are a massive factor driving climate change. According to the Environmental …

… helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the traditional way, which leverages an all-or-nothing …