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Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is …

Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a … University of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through …

Thank you for joining us at the 2024 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this annual gathering of …

The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from …

Kanwar spends part of his time assisting JGI users by processing their single cell samples using our high throughput pipeline. He …

Danielle operates the single-cell genomics pipeline for JGI collaborators. This work combines custom flow cytometric analysis, cell sorting, genome amplification, PCR screening, and 16S sequencing. She also develops …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those …