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Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in hard-to-reach places that …

Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … Lab), Woyke currently serves as the interim deputy for JGI User Programs. Earlier this year, she was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the …

… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

In late June, Kathleen Lail, a member of JGI’s Sample Management Group, attended a conference in … had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do you want to … partnership. The class decided to do an environmental microbial community (metagenomic) soil study in an untouched …

Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … CRISPR to knock out or activate genes, researchers at the JGI were able to monitor loss- and gain-of-function. The …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the … lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause much damage to the hosts, but they are carriers of several viruses … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     … The U.S. Department …

… was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial assemblies, revealing the roles of microbial … Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s Microbial Systems group. The award ceremony was held …

… determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Communications paper . The work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s …