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… The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative …

… and seven graduate students from UC Merced through their long standing internship program. In just two months, the students participated in networking workshops, … W. Berkeley Kauffman Project: “ 16s Sequencing of Barcoded Microbial Genomes ” Morgan Lavenstein Bendall : “It’s great …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. … functions. It plays an important role in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which … Science Program (CSP) . The Impact Cyclic di-GMP controls microbial colonization, which can affect pathogenic and …

… A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers … behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total … recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her Single Cells team …

… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group through the  DOE Office of Science … Student Research (SCGSR) program . Her research project, “Microbial Community Structure and Methane Production in …

… Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant … that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other … determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can …