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… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … Metabolic reprogramming, Schulz explained, makes the host function better under certain conditions, which then helps … populations impacted by adverse environmental conditions. Function prediction on the 2,000 new giant virus genomes led …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science … year’s annual CSP call had five areas of emphasis: genes to function, plant and algal functional genomics, inter-organismal interactions, …

… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … Joint Genome Institute, Dr. Kyrpides led the development of the genome analysis and Bioinformatics core at Integrated … his postdoctoral studies with Carl Woese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Argonne National …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist … understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity.  In 2021, he … infect soil microbes and influence how soil ecosystems function. He was one of the eight JGI researchers on the …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually … the door for more incisive investigations into how lichens function. One of their abilities that’s  now getting more …

… The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — … analyses) to break up the compounds and to puzzle out their structures. Their results indicate that anaerobic fungi …

… single-cell work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in … genomes than many bacteria. Until recently, understanding of giant viruses came primarily from sampling an … viruses has enabled findings on host range, morphological structures, and infection strategies. More recently, …

… technologies provide opportunities for students and professors alike The Science In  PLoS Pathogens , a team of … with the JGI and KBase to tap into their existing infrastructures and technologies, enabling these communities to … complete processing and analysis of fungal data, the course structures center around the practices of collecting samples …

… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … said co-first author Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data … JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group, and Ivanova leads the Functional Annotation team. MAGs significantly expanded the …

… hydroxyapatite, a high-value biomaterial with a wide range of industrial applications. The team was led by researchers at two U.S. Department of Energy national user facilities – the DOE Joint Genome … in the development and biotechnology applications of various biomaterials. These efforts align with BER …