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Marianne is an affiliate researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes that …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat … species, some sphagnum may prefer the dryer, more elevated soil of the hummocks or the more water-logged hollows below. …

… cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary …

… change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the … aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of … period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows that the way …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the … Communication Manager Sarah Sharman recently interviewed study first author Avinash Sreedasyam, a HudsonAlpha senior … studies. We also looked at the cross-species comparable study, where plants were subjected to three nitrogen sources …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle study built off earlier approaches and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which …

Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly eukaryotic origins were … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal RNA gene censuses.  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh ,  Metagenome Program lead, shone a spotlight on  ammonia …

Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the … to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University … the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

The DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted the hybrid “NeLLi 2023 Symposium” delving into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and … Schulz,  New Lineages of Life Lead Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Metagenome Program Tanja Woyke, Microbial Program Robert …

… in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with … consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples … The researchers then pursued the Nha-C strain for further study, tagging the cells with individual fluorescent probes. …