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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … analyses to continuously refine and improve the process of finding novel Cas genes and CRISPR systems. The …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … ch allenges. Methane emissions are a massive factor driving climate change. According to the Environmental …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are … head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental … approach uses fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to …

… This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is … unless otherwise noted): December 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating … Successful Proposals December 9  4:15pm PT (online) Town Hall on how the Facilities Integrating Collaborations …

… The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends … of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle … lyse all those local hosts, they’d likely have a hard time finding more. …

… The JGI is excited to welcome six to the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Facilities (FICUS) program for fiscal year 2026, in partnership with the Environmental …

… by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a team led by researchers from The … changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in … them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any …

… The JGI welcomes three new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, … six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert …

… Stephen Nayfach and  Nikos Kyrpides , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data … . The following guest piece was written by Call, a postdoctoral fellow in the JGI Microbiome Data Science Group led by … early 2020, people all over the world have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect …

… crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too deep in the sea to get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these … Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 and DBI-2047598 to K.A. We thank …

… Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel … International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Due to the ongoing pandemic, Woyke will receive the prize at a …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality … going to sell it, of course.” McDaniel’s lab predicts the decoded complex plant genomes will lead his team to a similar … was supported by NSF DEB-1541005 and start-up funds from UF to S.F.M.; microMORPH Cross-Disciplinary Training Grant, …