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As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … opened vast windows into specific activities catalyzed by microbial communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different … with the JGI successfully simulated how successive waves of microbial populations degraded the dispersed oil.   Terry …

… 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

… underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using microbial understanding to formulate a vaccine for …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material … 16. The same year, the JGI expanded its existing Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes database to include a …

… further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … that produce them. The Impact Secondary metabolites are microbial compounds produced in response to hardship or …

… fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by … that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples … Program, and already available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) platform. Nikos …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a …

Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their … Merced in Spring 2019.) Mentor: Ben Cole, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions What effect has your summer …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now …