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Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on … Wales, Cardiff, Genetics Ph.D. – University of Cambridge., Microbial molecular biology Post-doctoral positions  – …

The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial consortia for bioenergy crops. And because lichens …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different … with the JGI successfully simulated how successive waves of microbial populations degraded the dispersed oil.   Terry …

… and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of … that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were … metatranscriptome datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then …

Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for … viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The … history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and complex genome of M. sinensis … is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets descend from two now-extinct …

Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River …