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… of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of the terpene synthase gene family across eucalypt … annotation of two C. citriodora subspecies provides an excellent opportunity to investigate the conservation and … of the E. grandis reference genome, an international effort by a team that included researchers at the DOE Joint Genome …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … The process involves “labeling” a given substance by applying a stable isotope to it. The isotopes are … study more samples and provides better resolution by splitting the DNA into more density fractions. It also …

… 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 … at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated by viruses in their environments. Environmental DNA … into the host genome, these sequences may be tainted by the presence of non-viral genes. Up to this point, there …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, … and Simon Roux. Kyrpides is part of another project led by Owen White at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Both …

… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … delivering the (baked) goods – a retirement cake adorned by a JGI helix motif. Ray’s wife Deb, delivered a mask for … debuted for the crowd before the event segued to remarks by the leadership of the DOE Office of Biological and …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who … selected as the 2025 recipient of the Microbiome Data Prize by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Roux leads … genetic diversity.  In 2021, he was among those selected by the DOE Office of Science as part of the Early Career …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane … and more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the … (NSLS-II). Leveraging resources from user facilities funded by the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This … research is very sentimental to me.” Mentors: Crysten Blaby-Haas & Bikash Shrestha Project: “ Detecting Isotope Bonds … Project: “ Improving biosynthetic gene cluster annotation by leveraging a large genomic model ” Leonel Gonzalez : …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … plant fibers. But are they both actually doing the job? By analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic … suggest that fungi are breaking down plant fibers, like cellulose and lignin. Bacteria, on the other hand, appear to …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. … program,  described in Plos Biology , the research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and training experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s … to log on to Dori – a computer cluster owned and operated by the JGI and Berkeley Lab – to launch a jupyter notebook …