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Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected … of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Woyke has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale … that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: … 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us …

The ocean depths are vast and dark. But there are hotspots on the … underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively microbial communities thrive, and even support entire … St. John, Gilberto Flores, and Peter Girguis about sampling these communities, and understanding how they’ve adapted …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By …

Committee (UEC) recently welcomed three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest … Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the Microbial Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of … He’s interested in how microbes influence biogeochemical cycles in soils and sediments and plant-microbial …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not … for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! … those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the … that led to the release of 52,515 publicly-available microbial draft genomes generated from environmental samples …