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… Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, … Marlis Reich, Taniya RoyChowdhury and Mar Schmidt; [bottom] Cody Spiegel, James Tan, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, … led any previously accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows …

… 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 … that can promote tree establishment and growth.  This study builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously …

… University Tübingen (Germany), Dr. Woyke pursued her postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004. … position in 2007, she switched gears from metagenomics to single-cell genomics, which is now her primary interest and passion. Dr. Woyke stepped into the Microbial Genomics Program Lead position in 2009 and …

… Dr. Grigoriev joined the JGI in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … JGI, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial … at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome Project and led annotation and analysis …

… have now developed CheckV (pronounced “Check-Vee”) to help researchers assess and improve the quality of … Environmental DNA sequencing can help scientist to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them … fragmented data, which limits the ability of researchers to accurately perform functional assessment, host …

… “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of … focus on a genotype with two identical sets of chromosomes to produce a monoploid reference sequence. For the highly … 80 percent of the world’s sugar, which is of interest to bioenergy researchers who want to develop sustainable …

… Pictured from left: [Top row]: Emily G. Aguirre, Shauna M. Bennett, Laura Bogar, … Lisa Kappel, Gayan Kariyawasam; Ákos T. Kovács. Elina Laanto, Rose A. Marks, Daniel Mok, Elise Morrison, Jake Nash, Reuben J. Peters, Morito Sakuma; [Bottom row]: Haley M. Sapers, Nadia Shakoor, …

… Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … the Innovative Genomics Institute. The Impact The ability to accurately edit genomes (that is, repair gene mutations, … many areas. In particular, gene editing is being used to develop drought, flooding, pest-resistant, and …

… decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research community.  Published January 17, … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the current state of …

… Four researchers have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome … user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Holly Bik of the University of Georgia, Greg Bonito of … such as functional studies (e.g., a functional encyclopedia building on GEBA) and in microbiome engineering.  Köpke is …

… system, researchers could open avenues for using bacteria to produce ethylene and more.  Microbes excel at recycling … stinky air is a rich source of the sulfur they need to grow and divide. Similar to the bacterial enzymes that … the sulfur from gasses, they also produce hydrocarbons, the building blocks of many of our fuels and materials.  With an …

… The JGI welcomes three new members to the JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland … nine other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies …