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JGI researchers lend expertise to develop tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky … in developing and maintaining the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomics and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. The …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … her institution and Bioenergy Research Centers. Sogin is a microbial ecologist at UC Merced, where her group focuses on …

Pictured from left: [Top] Bill J. Baker, Jeff Barrick, Ian Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; … and environmental DNA sequencing to explore microbial and plant interactions across unique ecosystems, …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea …

… new members to their User Executive Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here … had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist Gilbert at the University of California …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving … Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale … sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to microbial host cells. In a separate article, research …

Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive … could one day help other organisms survive hotter, drier climates. So University of Tuscia researchers Laura Selbmann and Claudia Coleine are working with scientists from around the world – and …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly …