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Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel … International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Due to the ongoing pandemic, Woyke will receive the prize at a …

This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is … unless otherwise noted): December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating … Successful Proposals December 9  4:15pm PT (online) Town Hall on how the Facilities Integrating Collaborations …

The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends … of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle … lyse all those local hosts, they’d likely have a hard time finding more. … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the Metagenome Program. His responsibilities include the development of novel computational tools to identify virus sequences, the design of new …

… by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The … changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce their own food and generate oxygen as a … on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic …

… have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and … If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of … nutrients from that decay, and deliver those nutrients to tree roots and soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s …

… crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these …

Dr. Northen is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since … 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI users.  Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality … going to sell it, of course.” McDaniel’s lab predicts the decoded complex plant genomes will lead his team to a similar …

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 … 1 billion years of evolution in Kingdom Fungi — from phylogenetic relationships to evolution of genomic mechanisms — …

… have now developed CheckV (pronounced “Check-Vee”) to help researchers assess and improve the quality of … environments. Environmental DNA sequencing can help scientist to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate … perform functional assessment, host prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. The development of CheckV helps …