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… Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several of the … students including 2018 intern Candace Cole, noted that “each year, they bring an invaluable benefit to our group’s … Jess Jarett, a postdoctoral fellow in Tanja Woyke’s Single Cells Group who mentored 2018 intern Akshay Paropkari, …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

… researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different … – Sphagnum fallax and S. magellanicum. The draft genome for  S. fallax is already available on the  JGI plant … this work reflects a collaboration between two programs within different Divisions of the Office of Biological and …

… doing the job? By analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from … Baldrian’s team distinguished four specific habitats within the forest floor: the leaf litter on top of the soil, …

… by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … learned how an inovirus’ strategy of integrating itself within a host can lead to beneficial or antagonistic …

… Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on … in how microbial communities can efficiently degrade complex polymers that are not easy to break down, as well as …

… Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are … reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

… Retaining ancestral features of both plant and animal cells, it shares nearly 7,000 genes with other organisms (a … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference … its RNA can produce up to four proteins, which has far-reaching implications. “This is important because the …