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… researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … of them archaea. The Quake lab had previously collaborated with the JGI on a proposal using this approach through the … Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her Single Cells team …

… National 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 …

… Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

… book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers … most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

… multi-institutional research team that combined field data with a reference switchgrass genome to associate climate … a series of webinars featuring aspects of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) Nikos Kyrpides was … research consortium that collected and analyzed microbial samples from public transit stations across 60 …

… of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular … characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity of …

… root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its … how poplar responds to its intimate associations with endophytes — a group whose effects on plants are still … poplar growth, the team compared poplar cuttings grown with and without an inoculation of the  M. elongata strain …

… green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …

… National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single … enormous impact her contributions have had on the field of microbial genomics. Her work in the areas of single-cell … the boundaries of energy and environmental genomics.” Along with Woyke, two JGI users were also elected to the AAM: …

… will be devoted to training in the use of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, presented by …

… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the …